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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.

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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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 consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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If we are ever going to save this society and the world, there has got to be a way for us to work together. That may be more than we can ever hope to achieve, just because of human nature.
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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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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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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It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.
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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 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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I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.
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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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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
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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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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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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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