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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.
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 have a lot of faith in people.
John Lithgow
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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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 look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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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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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 don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
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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 consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife
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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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That's how you deal with stardom you make it the least important part of your life.
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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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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'd sleep under a Vermeer.
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It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
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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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