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" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "
John Lithgow
Milk
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" I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor. "
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" I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. "
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" 'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing play. "
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" Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor. "
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" People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film. "
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" I keep looking for things I haven't done yet. "
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" I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up. "
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" I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated. "
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" I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan. "
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" Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man. "
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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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" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "
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" I loved growing up in Ohio. "
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" An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too. "
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" Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body. "
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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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" When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder. "
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" I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life. "
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" When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school. "
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" 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. "
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