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John Lithgow Quotes

American - Actor | October 19, 1945 -

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.

Time Fool Yourself Child Thinking

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.

Children Sun Parents Me Think Magic

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.

Work Fun Voice Enjoy You Acting

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

Father Thinking Artist Feeling Like

I really prize and love great painting.

Love Great Painting Prize Really

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

Life Age Young Class Lived Middle

I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

School High School Artist Serious

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

Culture Stress Ugly Start Things

When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

School Accomplishment Think Remember

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

Slow Very Reader Dogged

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.

Experience Me Remember Uncle Go Old

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.

Father Children House Old First

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