Quotes by John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Humor

Infantile

Sense Of Humor

Any character you play, you’re on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what’s good about him.

Character

Eye

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

Actors

Age

Laughter

Books make great gifts because they’re something you love that you can share.

Book

Something You Love

Everybody’s a dreamer.

Dream

Dreamer

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it’s also much more thrilling.

Mediums

Stage

Thrilling

Growing up I didn’t want to be an actor. I sort of didn’t want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

Actors

Artist

Growing Up

Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.

Laughter

Stars

Teenager

I always tell that to young people – go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don’t try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don’t make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.

Ambition

College

People

I can’t get used to the fact that I’m 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 – 71 years old. It’s kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, “Yup. That’s exactly what I look like.”

Kind

Realizing

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Artist

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Awards

Baby

Be Kind

Believe

Betrayal

Bigs

Book

Boyfriend

Care

Challenges

Character

Charity

Cheer

Class

College

Comedy

Compliment

Country

Dad

Deals

Discovery

Doe

Done

Dream

Dreamer

Ducks

Earth

Ends

Enough

Eugenics

Evening

Eye

Father

Feelings

Film

Foul

Four

Fun

Funny

Gave Up

Growing Up

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Hearing

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Quotes by John Lithgow

John Lithgow

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

Any character you play, you’re on his side. You do have the third eye that looks at what an appalling creature he is, but you have to look at what’s good about him.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

Books make great gifts because they’re something you love that you can share.

Everybody’s a dreamer.

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it’s also much more thrilling.

Growing up I didn’t want to be an actor. I sort of didn’t want to go into the family business; the main reason being there was something I wanted to do far more, which was be an artist.

I can’t get used to the fact that I’m 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a part even older than 68 – 71 years old. It’s kind of startling to see myself in a movie and realize, “Yup. That’s exactly what I look like.”

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