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" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "
John Lithgow
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" 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. "
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" Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look for: outsized human beings. "
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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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" I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person. "
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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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" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "
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" The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us. "
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" I eat way too fast. "
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" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "
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" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "
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" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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" 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. "
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" I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "
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" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "
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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. "
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" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "
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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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" Everybody's a dreamer. "
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" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "
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Great
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" I gave up shame a long time ago. "
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Time
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" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
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Done
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" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "
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" I loved growing up in Ohio. "
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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'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "
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" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
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" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "
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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. "
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" I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20. "
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