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" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "
John Lithgow
Culture
Ugly
Stress
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" Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show. "
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" The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. "
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" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "
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" If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. "
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Front
You
Too
" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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Years
Six
" I really prize and love great painting. "
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Love
Great
Prize
" We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics. "
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Friends
God
" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "
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See
Relationship
" Everybody's a dreamer. "
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Dreamer
Dreams
Everybody
" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "
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Tim
Tim Burton
" I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it. "
John Lithgow
Things
Done
Like
" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "
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Take
People
Pig
" To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my father's chequered career, and she always made me feel a sense of consistency and security. I was a well-mothered boy. "
John Lithgow
Consistency
Security
Me
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Out
Comedy
Work
" When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. "
John Lithgow
Me
Uncle
Experience
" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "
John Lithgow
Myself
Character
Job
" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "
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Class
Middle
Lived
" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "
John Lithgow
Good
Wife
Hard
" The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. "
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Rich
Language
Hilarious
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Amazing
Earth
Future
" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "
John Lithgow
Sometimes
Me
Eagerness
" Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life. "
John Lithgow
You
Reality
Life
" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "
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Disappointment
People
Ego
" I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him. "
John Lithgow
Never
You
Fun
" Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs. "
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Me
World
People
" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "
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Man
He
Business
" People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film. "
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Fun
You
Comedy
" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "
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Lead
Behind
Romantic
" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "
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Much
Stage