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" 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
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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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" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "
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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 gave up shame a long time ago. "
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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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Security
Me
" Everybody's a dreamer. "
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Dreams
Everybody
" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "
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Middle
Lived
" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "
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" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
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You
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" I have a lot of faith in people. "
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People
" 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
" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "
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Better
Getting Older
Getting Better
" 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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Become
Tough
Park
" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "
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Lead
Behind
Romantic
" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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Between
Years
Six
" Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening. "
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Culture
Ugly
Stress
" 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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Dying
You
Play
" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "
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Storytelling
Growing
Growing Up
" Britain is probably the most sophisticated combination of a monarchy and a democracy. "
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Most
Sophisticated
Democracy
" As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids. "
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People
Father
Relationship
" Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me. "
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Different
Rest
Population
" I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him. "
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Never
You
Fun
" 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. "
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Believe
Con
Artist
" I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "
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Business
I Am
Crazy
" I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage. "
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Coward
Rather
I Am
" 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. "
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Fool
Child
Yourself
" I look around, and 50 percent of the big-budget entertainment you are seeing these days is dystopian. This is the era of 'Hunger Games' and blasted landscapes and 'The Walking Dead.' "
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Walking
Seeing
Dead
" 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
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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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Me
World
People