John Lithgow Quotes
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I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.
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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.
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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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Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'
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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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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
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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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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.
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It's not always easy to be proud of your government.
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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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What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
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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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In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
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Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
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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.
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It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business.
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'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play.
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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.
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
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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.
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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.
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I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.