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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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When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the 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 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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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'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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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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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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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'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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 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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