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" 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. "
John Lithgow
Believe
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Artist
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" I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor. "
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" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "
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" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
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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'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "
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" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "
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" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "
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Audience
Evening
" 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. "
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" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "
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Own
" It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business. "
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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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Look
Out
Up
" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "
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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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Better
Because
Fun
" I loved growing up in Ohio. "
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Up
Loved
Growing
" 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
Perspective
Awards
" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "
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You
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" Comedy is very, very hard to achieve. "
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Very
" 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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Consistency
Security
Me
" There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults. "
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Imagine
You
Children
" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "
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Take Care
Be Kind
Care
" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
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Done
Looking
Things
" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "
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Artist
Serious
School
" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "
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You
Think
Than
" 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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Strong
Me
Political
" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "
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Milk
Mother
Shakespeare
" I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "
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Father
Career
Teacher
" 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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Comedy
" 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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Up
Audience
Challenge
" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "
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Audition
Tim
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" 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. "
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