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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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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 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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