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" 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. "

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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. "

John Lithgow

Thank God

Friends

God

" I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. "

" No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take. "

" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "

" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "

" 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

Political

" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "

" 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. "

" In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt. "

" It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. "

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

John Lithgow

Loved

Growing

" Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "

John Lithgow

You

Time

" The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York. "

" 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. "

" The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being. "

" I gave up shame a long time ago. "

John Lithgow

Time

Shame

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Think

Sun

" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "

John Lithgow

Sometimes

Eagerness

" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "

John Lithgow

Height

I Am

" It's wonderful to play a villain who gets a laugh or to stop a comedy dead in its tracks with a touching moment. It's kind of like a symphony that has very different movements. "

" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "

" 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. "

" If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic fun, and I overdo it - I mean, I can't seem to stop - people ask me to act, and I say yes. "

" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "

" Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account. "

John Lithgow

Good Work

Money

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" 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

Acting

Best

" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "