American - Actor | October 19, 1945 -
Actors are not necessarily smart people.
John Lithgow
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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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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.
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We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.
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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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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.
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I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.
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My wife is a professor at UCLA in Los Angeles, but otherwise, I'd be right back living on the Upper West Side.
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The theater is my power center, and I love doing it in New York.
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We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep.
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What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
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I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.
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