Quote

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.

John Lithgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Lithgow
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: October 19
Actor
Banjoist
Film Actor
Film Producer
Musician
Poet
Stage Actor
Television Actor
Voice Actor
Rochester
New York
John Arthur Lithgow
Still
Exactly
Look
Realize
Feel
Playing
Even
Realizing
Kind
Movie
Years
Fact
Youngster
Like
Part
Startling
Used
Older

More quotes by John Lithgow

Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
John Lithgow
Image
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.
John Lithgow
Image
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
John Lithgow
Image
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
John Lithgow
Image
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
John Lithgow
Image
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
John Lithgow
Image
Everybody's a dreamer.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
I certainly had my years as an out of work actor but I was married with a baby. My wife was supporting us.
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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
John Lithgow
Image
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.
John Lithgow
Image
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
Image
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
John Lithgow