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" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
John Lithgow
Done
Looking
Things
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" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "
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" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "
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" 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. "
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" I loved growing up in Ohio. "
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" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "
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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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" The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. "
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" I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "
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" I really prize and love great painting. "
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" I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful. "
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" 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. "
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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 went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "
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Serious
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" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "
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Time
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" 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. "
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Me
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" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "
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Walking
Seeing
Dead
" As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids. "
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" 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. "
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Time
Learning
Chapter
" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "
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Moment
Doing
Discovery
" I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage. "
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" 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. "
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Amazing
Earth
Future
" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "
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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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" It's not always easy to be proud of your government. "
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" I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up. "
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" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "
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" 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. "
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Life
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