John Lithgow Quotes - Page 3

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• For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

  John Lithgow

  Stage, Mediums, Thrilling

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• Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

  John Lithgow

  Humor, Sense Of Humor, Infantile

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• The problem is that people are pulling farther apart, rather than make an effort to get back together. There have been remarkable moments that united this country. It makes everyone feel relieved. Then because of economic stress, political shifts, we get wrenched apart again. I think it's cyclical. I am an optimist by nature. There are moments, the period after 9/11, the way we responded. The election of Barack Obama. There are moments where the country felt good about being American. I'm waiting for that to happen again.

  John Lithgow

  Country, Stress, Thinking

  Source: movieweb.com

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• 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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  Betrayal, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  John Lithgow

  Nice, People, Atmosphere

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star."

  John Lithgow

  Stars, Phrases, Actors

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was very interested in being a painter. I had facility, I had talent, and I loved painting and printmaking, and I was quite serious about it.

  John Lithgow

  Serious, Painting, Talent

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• 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

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 It's so out of date now.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

  John Lithgow

  And Love, Painting, Prize

  "John Lithgow on Process, His Past and Playing an Artist in Love Is Strange". Interview with Meredith Alloway, blogs.indiewire.com. July 17, 2014.

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• 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

  Challenges, Tourism, Tourists

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

  John Lithgow

  Actors, Done, Nudity

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

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• 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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• 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

  Running, Long, Tough Times

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• 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

  Looks, Stories, West

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• 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

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• 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."

  John Lithgow

  Kind, Realizing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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