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" I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person. "
John Lithgow
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Weird
Doing
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" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "
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" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "
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" I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun. "
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" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "
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" I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater. "
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" 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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" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "
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" I gave up shame a long time ago. "
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Time
Shame
" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "
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Word
Picture
" I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me. "
John Lithgow
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Me
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" It's not always easy to be proud of your government. "
John Lithgow
Government
Always
Easy
" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "
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Great
Perspective
Awards
" 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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Middle
Lived
" I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't. "
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Con
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" 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. "
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You
Reality
Life
" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
John Lithgow
Live
You
Feeling
" Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. "
John Lithgow
Tend
Academics
Humor
" 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. "
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Music
Look
" 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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Real Life
Acting
Way
" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "
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Sometimes
Hopeful
Mean
" I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "
John Lithgow
Business
I Am
Crazy
" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "
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Good
Wife
Hard
" 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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Ambition
Best
Work
" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "
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Milk
Mother
Shakespeare
" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
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Done
Looking
Things
" I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "
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Boston
Avid
Sox
" I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "
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Look
Out
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" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "
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Really
Acting
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" It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business. "
John Lithgow
You
Creative
People