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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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" 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. "

John Lithgow

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. "

John Lithgow

Grow

Grow Up

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "

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

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

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

" I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged. "

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" 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. "

" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "

" I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. "

" 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. "

" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "

" People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film. "

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

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

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

" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "

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

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

" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "

" When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly. "

John Lithgow

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Experience

" 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. "

" 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. "