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" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "
John Lithgow
Better
Getting Older
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" My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side. "
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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 like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "
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" There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of us just spend all our time fascinated by them. "
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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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" 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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" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "
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" I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience. "
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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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" 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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" If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love. "
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