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" I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten. "

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" I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well. "

John Lithgow

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Golden

Award

" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "

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

" 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

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" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" 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. "

" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to 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

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "

" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "

John Lithgow

Man

Business

" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "

" 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. "

" Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. "

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" 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. "

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" 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

" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

John Lithgow

Loved

Growing

" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "

" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "

" My wife tells me I always have to have a project. A 'projectophile' or something. It's true. I always feel like the grass is growing under my feet. "

John Lithgow

Feel

True

" There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them. "

" One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact. "

" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "

" My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald. "

" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "

" 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

" 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. "