John Lithgow Quotes
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Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
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As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.
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If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
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You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.
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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.
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I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.
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If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.
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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.
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My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'
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Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
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My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet.
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I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.
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For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
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In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
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Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.