John Lithgow Quotes

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John Lithgow

Profession : Actor

Birth : October 19, 1945

People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

John Lithgow

Everybody's a dreamer.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

John Lithgow

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

John Lithgow

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

John Lithgow

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

John Lithgow