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I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

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 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 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 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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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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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 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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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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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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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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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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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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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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