American - Actor | October 19, 1945 -
It's not always easy to be proud of your government.
John Lithgow
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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.
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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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I do think - I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.
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The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort of knew who I was as an actor, and I was gradually learning who I was as a human being.
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The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.
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Growing up in an atmosphere of storytelling made me an actor.
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There is less difference than you would imagine entertaining little children and entertaining adults.
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The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.
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I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some point. You can hit him as hard as you can, and it's never enough for him.
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'Love Is Strange' was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.
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You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.
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