John Lithgow Quotes
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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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Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.
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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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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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I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
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Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
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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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When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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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 hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
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Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
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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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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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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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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.
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My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.
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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'
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There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.
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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
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In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.