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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 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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Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
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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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Everybody's a dreamer.
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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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
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I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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I have a lot of faith in people.
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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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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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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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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I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
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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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