John Lithgow Quotes

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.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.

Jefferson Mays

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If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

Andy Griffith

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I don't think it's really possible to share someone in most cases.

Amanda Seyfried

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Instead of inventing imaginary friends, I invented whole imaginary worlds. They were elaborate scenarios about spies and adventurers and top secret missions. I crawled along my swing set, searching for escape routes from my maximum-security prison; I biked through the neighborhood, the wind in my hair and a fleet of evildoers on my heels.

Robin Wasserman

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I don't believe the fertilised egg can be equated with the sort of human life that you and I represent, or our children represent.

Robert Winston

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A merchant is someone who figures out how to select, how to smell, how to identify, how to feel, how to time, how to buy, how to sell, and how to hopefully have two plus two equal six.

Mickey Drexler

TimeFeelSomeoneSmellEqualOut

I'll say this: I want to become a distraction! And what I mean is by making big plays and doing good stuff on the field. Although nobody would print that, because that's not a story. Gotta keep bringing up the locker-room situation because he's gay.

Michael Sam

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I never gave up, and for that, I can be proud of myself.

Lizzie Armitstead

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They look outside the windows of their apartment in town and realize they're not living in a terrace anymore. This is a room full of dreamers who like to go to London for a day.

Johnny Vegas

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I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.

Christopher Hitchens

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You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Chuck Tanner

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'Farscape' is a fabulous vehicle for looking at ethical, moral, political, and social issues.

Bonnie Hammer

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