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I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.

John Lithgow

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John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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John Arthur Lithgow
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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.
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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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Any character you play, you're on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what's good about him.
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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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I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people.
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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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I learned the most about myself, and you ask what I learned? Well, I learned my strengths and my weaknesses, and it's far more important to learn about your weaknesses than your strengths.
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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.
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It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.
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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 certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
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For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
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It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
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I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest
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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.
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