John Lithgow Quotes
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I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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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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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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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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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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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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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 loved growing up in Ohio.
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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
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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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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
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I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.
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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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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.
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My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.
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Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
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An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.