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John Lithgow [1945-0] American

Rank: 107
Actor

John Arthur Lithgow is an American actor, musician, singer, and author. He has received two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and has also been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards.

Amazing, Dad, Dreams, Environmental, Future, Humor, Music

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I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.	Dad	101
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't.		102
Everybody's a dreamer.	Dreams	103
I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest.	Amazing, Environmental, Future	104
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.		105
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music.	Music	106
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare.		107
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.		108
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.		109
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.		110
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.		111
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.	Humor	112
I never get tired of hearing compliments.		113
There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.		114
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.		115
I gave up shame a long time ago.		116
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.		117
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.		118
I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.		119
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.		120
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.		121
I have a lot of faith in people.		122
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.		123
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.		124
I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.		125
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.		126
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.		201
I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.		202

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