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" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "
John Lithgow
Approaching
Still
Myself
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" Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract. "
John Lithgow
Work
You
Acting
" Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body. "
John Lithgow
Inside
Like
Own
" 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
" In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next. "
John Lithgow
You
Create
Character
" One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other. "
John Lithgow
People
You
Society
" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "
John Lithgow
Sometimes
Me
Eagerness
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Ambition
Best
Work
" 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
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Thank God
Friends
God
" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "
John Lithgow
Take
People
Pig
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Me
World
People
" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "
John Lithgow
Artist
Serious
School
" What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy. "
John Lithgow
Life
Life Is A
Me
" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "
John Lithgow
Achieve
Comedy
Very
" I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. "
John Lithgow
Day
Fun
Home
" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "
John Lithgow
Fault
Start
Everything
" I eat way too fast. "
John Lithgow
Fast
Eat
Way
" I went to - I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years, I accumulated a lot of knowledge, but I also created a kind of habit of learning that has stayed with me my whole life. "
John Lithgow
Learning
Me
Life
" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "
John Lithgow
Most
Sophisticated
Democracy
" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
John Lithgow
Live
You
Feeling
" When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare. "
John Lithgow
End
Yes
You
" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "
John Lithgow
Times
Zombie
Sort
" 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
Strong
Me
Political
" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "
John Lithgow
Take Care
Be Kind
Care
" 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
" We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. "
John Lithgow
Grow
Up
Grow Up
" 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. "
John Lithgow
Mistakes
Life
Own
" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "
John Lithgow
Culture
Ugly
Stress
" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "
John Lithgow
Audition
Tim
Tim Burton
" We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us. "
John Lithgow
More
Acting
Best