John Lithgow Quotes
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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
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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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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.
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I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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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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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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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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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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I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
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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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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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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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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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Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.
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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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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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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 went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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I loved growing up in Ohio.
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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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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.
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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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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.