John Lithgow Quotes

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this makes it all the more interesting to us.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 19, 1945

Topics

BestPeopleInterestingActingMore

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

Jim Capaldi

LovedEverythingAnythingAble

I think there's something to the millennial sentiment of being, like, 'I'm great.' But I think there's also something really amazing and powerful about being, like, 'Oh, hey, I'm awesome.' It's a fine line. But I think it's possible to be both, to not be the most annoying person in the world, to still be very intriguing and fun to watch.

Jessica Williams

GreatFunAmazingWorldThinkLine

I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.

Jessica Pare

DayMenPastDriveBelieveMad

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

Angela Merkel

CountryEconomicComeCollapseWhich

I've always identified with the misfits.

Stephan Jenkins

AlwaysMisfitsIdentified

It goes - for me - WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, Summerslam. The big three.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

MeThreeRoyalBigGoes

If you try to make a silent movie with a normal script and you just pull out the dialogue, you will have big problems with the actors because you will ask them to tell a story that you don't know.

Michel Hazanavicius

StoryProblemsYouKnowSilentTry

To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.

Jay Parini

RespectEyesLawOpinionThinking

I loved movies growing up. I went to the movies with my uncle all the time. But being an actor? I didn't even think about it until I was about twenty years old. I took a class at the college I was at. I don't know why - I just wanted to take a class, and I kind of fell in love with it there.

Christopher Abbott

LoveTimeCollegeGrowing UpThink

I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.

Cody Horn

LifeManSmartThinkMy LifeKind

I've had such an amazing opportunity to work on so many different types of projects that continued on to Broadway. Unfortunately I didn't always continue on with them. Still, you know, I always had such a great pride in kind of helping the authors and directors create the show.

Annaleigh Ashford

WorkOpportunityGreatAmazingPride

So the idea that you could put Kurds, Shiite Arabs, and Sunni Arabs in a nice, liberal, federal system in Iraq in a short amount of time, six months or a year, boggles the mind.

William Odom

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