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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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John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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John Arthur Lithgow
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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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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 don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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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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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 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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
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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 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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I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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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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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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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'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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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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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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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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