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John Lithgow Quotes

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

End You Back Go Successful Sensible

The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy.

Children Best Child Birth Right

I usually have pretty good intuition on projects that I work on.

Work Good Intuition Pretty Projects

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

John F. Kennedy

Fitness Security Growing Physical

I have played some wonderful leading roles on stage and had the whole 'China Beach' years where I really played a leading man on that. That was a fun change for a character actor. But I'm perfectly happy going back to building my gallery of memorable character roles.

Change Character Beach Man Fun Back

Growing up, I had a front row seat to seeing two people work really hard. My dad scrubbed toilets at a private Catholic school for a while, and that was to help me get through school.

Work School People Me Growing Up

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

Life Great Thinking My Life Escape

When I was a little kid, no matter what my parents told me, I would always argue - even if I agreed with them. And I've always been a show-off. As I've gotten older, I've found ways to be more subtle about it, but that's the way I am. I suppose that has something to do with why I write and direct.

I Am Parents Me Why Way Matter

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Good Car Drive Normal Things Read

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

Me Doing Find Way Head Something

The human race has been telling stories since it began.

Race Human Human Race Been Stories

You should never be put into a mold based on your gender.

Gender You Never Mold Your Should

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting 'Saturday Night Live.' You either sink or swim.

Christina Aguilera

Live Night Saturday You Always Swim

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