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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
John Lithgow -
When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.
John Lithgow
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I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.
John Lithgow -
I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic.
John Lithgow -
Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
John Lithgow -
To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy.
John Lithgow -
I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.
John Lithgow -
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful.
John Lithgow
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I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.
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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
John Lithgow -
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract.
John Lithgow -
Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride.
John Lithgow -
My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.
John Lithgow -
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.
John Lithgow
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I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.
John Lithgow -
I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
John Lithgow -
I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.
John Lithgow -
I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.
John Lithgow -
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
John Lithgow -
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.
John Lithgow
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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.
John Lithgow -
There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
John Lithgow -
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.
John Lithgow -
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.
John Lithgow