American - Actor | October 19, 1945 -
Comedy is very, very hard to achieve.
John Lithgow
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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.
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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.
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I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.
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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.
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I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.
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I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.
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In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever character you create from one play to the next.
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