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" 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. "

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" 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. "

John Lithgow

Work

You

Acting

" I have a lot of faith in people. "

" I do all the cooking in the family. I cook Italian, mostly, pastas and roasts, and bit by bit, I'm learning how to bake. I think cooking is a gift to other people. "

" My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me. "

" Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!' "

" 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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

John Lithgow

Look

Out

" 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. "

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

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

John Lithgow

You

Time

" Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections. "

" 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. "

" My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

John Lithgow

Think

Sun

" Everybody's a dreamer. "

" I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to do with your life, and that's, I think, what keeps me hopeful. "

John Lithgow

Good

I Am

" Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor. "

" I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995. "

" Good acting is really excellent carpentry. "

" There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults. "

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

" 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. "

" For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling. "

" I really prize and love great painting. "

" My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.' "