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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.
John Lithgow
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John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
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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 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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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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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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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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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 look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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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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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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 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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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 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 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'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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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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