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" It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children. "

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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. "

John Lithgow

World

People

" I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "

" I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it. "

John Lithgow

Things

Done

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Strong

Political

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

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

" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "

" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "

" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I eat way too fast. "

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

" When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. "

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

" I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist. "

" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "

" 'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play. "

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

" It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago. "

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Feel

True

" 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. "

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

John Lithgow

Grow

Grow Up

" If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated. "

" I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in. "

John Lithgow

Height

I Am

" I really prize and love great painting. "

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

John Lithgow

Man

Business

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "