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  • Actor
  • born 1945
  • 165 quotes

John Lithgow, an actor (born 1945), is quoted 165 times on QuoteForever. The subjects that come up most often are Done, Play, Long Time Ago and Time Long Long Time.

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Everybody's a dreamer.

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

I loved growing up in Ohio.

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

I gave up shame a long time ago.

I have a lot of faith in people.

I really prize and love great painting.

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

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

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

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

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

My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.

Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

'Love Is Strange' was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology.

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

I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

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

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

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

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

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

I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.

Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy.

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