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John Lithgow

I Need a Good Book I need a g...

I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf. I need some good writing, Alive and exciting, To contemplate all by myself. I need a good novel, I need a good read. I probably need Two or three. I need a good tale Of love and betrayal Or perhaps an adventure at sea. I need a good saga. I need a good yarn. A momentous and mightily Or slight one. But with thousands and thousands And thousands of books, I need someone to tell me The right one. -John Lithgow

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John Lithgow

It's my theory that if you he...

It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed

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John Lithgow

I subscribe to the great Geor...

I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in the ass". We all need help from directors. We are all equally insecure.

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John Lithgow

I'm always being asked to pla...

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

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John Lithgow

The most exciting acting tend...

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

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John Lithgow

I don't hesitate to do nudity...

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

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John Lithgow

I was married very young. I l...

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.

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John Lithgow

I'm very concerned for the fu...

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

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John Lithgow

It's wonderful to play a vill...

It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements.

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John Lithgow

I work very hard on motivatin...

I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

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John Lithgow

Every time I see somebody beh...

Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

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John Lithgow

I like to rehearse and rehear...

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

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John Lithgow

Next to the word 'luvvie' in ...

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

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John Lithgow

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fa...

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

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John Lithgow

My very first role was when I...

My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

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John Lithgow

The first long chapter of my ...

The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.

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John Lithgow

If you go through your life b...

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

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John Lithgow

In 1995, I proposed the Harva...

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt.

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John Lithgow

I won two Golden Globes, and ...

I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well.

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John Lithgow

Churchill faced his own dimin...

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

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