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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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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 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 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 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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Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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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 don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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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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If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
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I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
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I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.
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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'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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Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
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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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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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Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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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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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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