John Lithgow Quotes

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.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I think, from a really early age, I just wanted to be an actress. And I ended up doing comedy because it was the thing that kind of, like, came out of my nature the most easily. But, I've always wanted to do as many different kinds of performances - whatever I could.

Jenny Slate

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I've always believed that talking about something is not the same as doing something about it.

Andrew Yang

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I had an advantage over a lot of people who had gone to school and earned degrees in writing and had learned the rules for writing, so to speak. My style was just to tell a story but to tell it well, and that has worked out for me so far.

Robert Kurson

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We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

Maurice Allais

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But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

Steve Coogan

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What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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Nike doesn't want to make products for everyone - they want to make products for champions.

Simon Sinek

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I've tried many other hairstyles, but it just doesn't work.

Rod Stewart

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What I do is a little bigger than traditional country. I've been belting all my life, so I fit right in with the musical-theater style.

Diana DeGarmo

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Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

Douglas Leone

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Generally speaking, there is more wit than talent in the world. Society swarms with witty people who lack talent.

Antoine Rivarol

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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.

Philip Roth

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