John Lithgow Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

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

  John Lithgow

  Inspirational, Motivational, Play

• 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

  Ducks, Acting, Actors

• 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.

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Laughter, Teenager

  Source: www.pbs.org

• I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people.

  John Lithgow

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

  John Lithgow

  Self, Acting, Overcoming

  "John Lithgow's Killer Role". Interview with Claire Martin, www.thedailybeast.com. December 10, 2009.

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