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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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'd sleep under a Vermeer.
John Lithgow
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 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 fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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 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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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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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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Everybody's a dreamer.
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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 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 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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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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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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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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Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
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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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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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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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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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