John Lithgow Quotes

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• Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

  John Lithgow

  People, Care, Be Kind

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• Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

  John Lithgow

  Funny, Time, Inspiration

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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.

  John Lithgow

  Real, Believe, Artist

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• You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

  John Lithgow

  People, Three, Politics

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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.

  John Lithgow

  Important, Weakness, Wells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

  John Lithgow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

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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.

  John Lithgow

  Working Together, World, Human Nature

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Books make great gifts because they're something you love that you can share.

  John Lithgow

  Book, Share, Something You Love

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• I never get tired of hearing compliments.

  John Lithgow

  Tired, Hearing, Compliment

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• I gave up shame a long time ago.

  John Lithgow

  Long, Shame, Gave Up

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• If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too

  John Lithgow

  Kids, Reader, Ifs

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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.

  John Lithgow

  School, Artist, Theatre

  "John Lithgow on Process, His Past and Playing an Artist in Love Is Strange". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. July 17, 2014.

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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

  John Lithgow

  Earth, Nests, Foul

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• We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.

  John Lithgow

  Should Have, Knowing, Charity

  Source: www.npr.org

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• If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

  John Lithgow

  Play, Age, Intermission

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

  John Lithgow

  Done, Havens

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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.

  John Lithgow

  Ambition, College, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life.

  John Lithgow

  Important, Deals, Stardom

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• I grew up in a theater family. My father was a regional theater classical repertory producer. He created Shakespeare festivals. He produced all of Shakespeare's plays, mostly in Shakespeare festivals in Ohio. One of them, the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Cleveland, is still going. So I grew up not wanting to be an actor, not wanting to go into the family business.

  John Lithgow

  Father, Lakes, Ohio

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

  John Lithgow

  Discovery, Film, Moments

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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.

  John Lithgow

  Father, Sibling, School

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

  John Lithgow

  Successful, Ends, Theater

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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

  Character, Eye

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I have a lot of faith in people.

  John Lithgow

  People

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• Everybody's a dreamer.

  John Lithgow

  Dream, Dreamer

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