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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. "

John Lithgow

People

You

Society

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Man

Business

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

" We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us. "

John Lithgow

Acting

Best

" Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract. "

" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "

" 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

" If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare. "

" If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. "

" I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest. "

" When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare. "

" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "

" 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. "

" Actors are not necessarily smart people. "

" I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. "

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Consistency

Security

" 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. "

" 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

" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "

" In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and women do go into the creative arts. Over the years we've had major, major figures, like Jack Lemmon, John Updike, Yo-Yo Ma, and Bonnie Raitt. "

" My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder. "

" 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

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Uncle

Experience

" I loved playing Roberta Muldoon! "

" Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective. "

" The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious. "

" Britain has a great sense of its own national pride. It's like the monarchy is the embodiment of that pride. "

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

John Lithgow

Grow

Grow Up

" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "

" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "

John Lithgow

Father

Feeling

" In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing. "