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John Lithgow
American
Actor
About the author
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Now
#Being
#Challenge
#Danger
#Variety
#Tourists
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Awards
#Perspective
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Successful
#End
#Theater
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Feeling
#Comedy
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#People
#Care
I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Hearing
#Compliments
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Time
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Sleep
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Actor
#Artist
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Fun
#Wife
#Decisions
#Father
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,
American
Actor
#Earth
#Future
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Work
#Actors
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Kids
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,
American
Actor
#Film
#Discovery
#Animation
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Time
#Comedy
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Time
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Mother
#Shakespeare
There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Nothing
#Night
#Evening
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Music
#Theater
Everybody's a dreamer.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
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.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Work
#Fun
#Day
#Home
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Actor
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,
American
Actor
#Public
#Idea
I gave up shame a long time ago.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Time
#Shame
I have a lot of faith in people.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#People
#Faith
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
John Lithgow,
American
Actor
#Senses
#Humor