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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
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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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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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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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
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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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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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Everybody's a dreamer.
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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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It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
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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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Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.
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My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.
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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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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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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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