John Lithgow Quotes

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John Lithgow

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 19, 1945

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

John Lithgow

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

John Lithgow

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

John Lithgow

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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Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.

John Lithgow

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

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I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor.

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'Love Is Strange' was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.

John Lithgow

I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life.

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Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

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It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.

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I have a lot of faith in people.

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I gave up shame a long time ago.

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I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.'

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I never get tired of hearing compliments.

John Lithgow

If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.

John Lithgow

If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time.

John Lithgow

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

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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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Actors are not necessarily smart people.

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