John Lithgow Quotes
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I gave up shame a long time ago.
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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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I loved growing up in Ohio.
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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
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I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people.
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I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
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Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
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I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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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.
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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.
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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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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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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 went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.
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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
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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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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
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Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.
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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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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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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.
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The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.
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Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.