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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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John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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John Arthur Lithgow
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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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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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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 don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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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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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 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 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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I have a lot of faith in people.
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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'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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