John Lithgow Quotes

I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up.

John Lithgow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Well, let me, first of all, say, that as a microtonal composer, I've never been much of a theorist.

John Eaton

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There is still a future with music, because people want music.

Maynard James Keenan

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I don't think families can earn enough money with one wage-earner any more. I also think there are a lot of men who don't want to bust their butts and do that kind of work. They want to stay home with the kids, but guys who do want to do that aren't looked up to as the masculine kind of guy, and that's a shame.

Melanie Mayron

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I started shooting pictures because I had all these photographers around me, and life was kind of boring creatively because you play the same songs every night. So I looked for another outlet, and I started shooting.

Johnny Colt

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The killing of a disabled person is not 'compassionate'. It is not 'euthanasia'. It is murder.

Stella Young

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When I was in college at the University of Pennsylvania, where I studied international relations and French, I studied abroad in Paris for a semester. I think when you're there, you can't help but be immersed in fashion because it's such a part of the city.

Stacey Bendet

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It's easy to make a cue last a lifetime. Don't boil it or freeze it in the trunk of a car. Don't lean it against a wall for years. If you lose a game to a complete idiot, hit the edge of the table in anger with something other than your cue.

Robert Byrne

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The networks initiated the discussion of live coverage.

Ron Ziegler

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I never insisted that I was a good student.

Roman Abramovich

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I've rarely met a miserable, self-pitying blind person.

Rosemary Mahoney

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Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.

Lukas Foss

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I get my competitiveness from my mom.

Jay S. Walker

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