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I grew up in a theater family...

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 82 quotes

I really prize and love great...

I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.

John Lithgow 82 quotes

My only regret is that we did...

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.

John Lithgow 82 quotes

Instead of being a theater ac...

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

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Having grown up in the theate...

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

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My father was a man of the th...

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 can't get used to the fact ...

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."

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I'm as flighty as anybody. Yo...

I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a major role, it's my instinct to create a nice atmosphere. People in the major roles dominate the tone of an entire film. To my mind, it's much easier to work creatively when everyone's friendly.

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If it's well written and well...

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

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I do think - I always tell th...

I do think - 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 can't imagine doing an hour...

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 82 quotes

If it's well written and well...

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 82 quotes

We all have our secrets, and ...

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

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Actors are not necessarily sm...

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

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I auditioned for soap operas ...

I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up.

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My worst audition was for Tim...

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

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The theater is my power cente...

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

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We're in the business of usin...

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

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No villain thinks of himself ...

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

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There's no more private famil...

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them.

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