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" If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and behaving like a child all the time. "
John Lithgow
Fool
Child
Yourself
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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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" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "
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" Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs. "
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" I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun. "
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" I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and failure. It's murderously hard on the ego. Don't become an actor. "
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" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "
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" 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. "
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Me
Life
" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "
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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. "
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Golden
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" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "
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Tim
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" It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows. "
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Park
" No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take. "
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Villain
Always
Approach
" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "
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Still
Myself
" I eat way too fast. "
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Eat
Way
" When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. "
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Successful
End
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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 was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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Years
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" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "
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Necessarily
People
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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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Feel
Me
True
" 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
" 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. "
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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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Enjoy
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" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "
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Mean
" The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered. "
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" When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school. "
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Dreams
Everybody
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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