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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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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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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 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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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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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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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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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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 a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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 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 have a lot of faith in people.
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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'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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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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