Quote

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

John Lithgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
Actor
Banjoist
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Rochester
New York
John Arthur Lithgow
Vermeer
Sleep

More quotes by John Lithgow

Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
John Lithgow
Image
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
John Lithgow
Image
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
John Lithgow
Image
I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
John Lithgow
Image
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
John Lithgow
Image
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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
Image
There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
John Lithgow
Image
I have a lot of faith in people.
John Lithgow