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John Lithgow Quotes

I love New York. I lived there all through the '70s and have lived in L.A. since the early '80s but come back all the time to do theater.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Love Time New York Back Early New

There are five kinds of great apes: bonobos, chimpanzees, orangutans, gorillas, and the one which people always think of last: Humans!

Great People Think Always Last Five

In the beginning, everybody that gets to work with me, thinks I'm nice. But three weeks later, they hear a bell ringing. Then they realise I meant everything I said during that first week. It's not my fault people are not taking me serious from the first moment.

Andrew Eldritch

Work Moment Beginning People Me

I prefer it when the conductor follows me. It is more difficult to work with a conductor who does not listen - even if I understand that sometimes it makes sense when one person is ruling everything. But for bel canto, I have to have a conductor who listens and supports me.

Work Me Person Sometimes Understand

All writers are magpies, right? We're always stealing bits from different places and then weaving them into our little nest.

Stacey D'Erasmo

Places Nest Right Always Little Our

Making mistakes is part of life. The only things I would feel ashamed of would be if I had said things I hadn't believed in order to get on. Some politicians do do that.

Life Mistakes Feel Making Mistakes

We are all doing drag. Every single person on this planet is doing it.

Doing Person Single Planet Drag

For many years, I didn't even like the idea of doing a one-person play. Public speaking got me past that. I've always been good at public speaking, but I never really enjoyed it. Then I started to really enjoy it, and that's made all the difference.

Good Past Me Doing Enjoy Play

My dad knows great music. So I'm taking music to him to get an opinion rather than praise.

Chord Overstreet

Music Great Opinion Praise Him Get

And I had known Peter O'Toole before in London. And I'd liked him very much. And the thought of being in a picture with him was very challenging to me. And he was playing the starring role.

Me Thought Picture London Him Role

Strange how paranoia can link up with reality now and then.

Reality Now Strange Now And Then Up

We can dream about putting a man on the Moon, and within a decade, we actually made it happen.

Shervin Pishevar

Man Moon Dream Decade Happen Within

I love creating things, especially out of metal. There's something truly satisfying about shaping a piece of metal and seeing the impurities peeling away as you weld it into your chosen design.

Love Design You Seeing Creating Out

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