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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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 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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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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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
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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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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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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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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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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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.
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I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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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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If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.
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You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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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 can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 - 71 years old. It's kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, Yup. That's exactly what I look like.
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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 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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I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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