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" What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy. "
John Lithgow
Live
You
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" My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald. "
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" I'm getting older, but better, too. And the roles are getting better. "
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Getting Older
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" You don't see many films about a long, long relationship. "
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" Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. "
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" If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too. "
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You
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" One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in the business of illustrating that fact. "
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Business
" I gave up shame a long time ago. "
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Time
Shame
" When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
John Lithgow
Out
Comedy
Work
" I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten. "
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Service
School
Crazy
" Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music. "
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Story
Music
Look
" No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take. "
John Lithgow
Villain
Always
Approach
" I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault. "
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Fault
Start
Everything
" I'd sleep under a Vermeer. "
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Sleep
" It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago. "
John Lithgow
Time
Film
See
" We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. "
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Bring
Real
Life
" I'm a very hopeful person. I mean, I'm an optimistic person, sometimes stupidly optimistic. "
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Sometimes
Hopeful
Mean
" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "
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Between
Years
Six
" Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me. "
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Milk
Mother
Shakespeare
" 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. "
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Disappointment
People
Ego
" 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. "
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Work
You
Acting
" I never get tired of hearing compliments. "
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Get
Hearing
Never
" We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics. "
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Thank God
Friends
God
" I have a lot of faith in people. "
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Lot
Faith
People
" The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going. "
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Know
Surprise
People
" 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. "
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Long
Golden
Award
" I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was. "
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Walk
Days
Easy
" 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. "
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