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" Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life. "

John Lithgow

You

Reality

Life

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John Lithgow

Look

Out

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "

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

John Lithgow

Man

Business

" I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the fact that when I first won the award, for '3rd Rock on the Sun,' I satirically compared aliens on the show to the Foreign Press Association. And they did not take that well. "

" I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person. "

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

John Lithgow

Height

I Am

" 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. "

" The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York. "

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

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Audience

Challenge

" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "

" The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times. "

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

" I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. "

" I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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