John Lithgow Quotes
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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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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.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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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.
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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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Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
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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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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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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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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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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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It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.
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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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I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.
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It's not always easy to be proud of your government.
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I loved growing up in Ohio.
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I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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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.
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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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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
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In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.