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" 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. "

John Lithgow

Rest

People

Royal

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" I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio. "

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

" It's not always easy to be proud of your government. "

" I gave up shame a long time ago. "

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Shame

" Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,' and they would all enjoy it for completely different reasons. I think that's part of the magic of the show. "

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Think

Sun

" 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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World

People

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

" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "

" My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me. "

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Sometimes

Eagerness

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

" 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. "

" Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions. "

" 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

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

John Lithgow

Man

Business

" I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher. "

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

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

" I loved growing up in Ohio. "

John Lithgow

Loved

Growing

" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "

" 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. "

" It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about the business. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "

John Lithgow

You

Time