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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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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 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 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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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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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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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'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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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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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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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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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 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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It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
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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 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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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
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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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