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There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

One of the problems in our lives is that people from different segments of our society just don't communicate with each other, nor do you ever see entertainment where they communicate with each other and fight with each other.

John Lithgow

My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

John Lithgow

I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

John Lithgow

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

John Lithgow

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

John Lithgow

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

John Lithgow

An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

John Lithgow

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

John Lithgow

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

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

John Lithgow

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

John Lithgow

I gave up shame a long time ago.

John Lithgow

I have a lot of faith in people.

John Lithgow

Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.

John Lithgow

I grew up with this crazy upbringing of living many places and always being the new kid in town, not like a service brat where you're always going to school with other new kids in town. I was constantly arriving in small towns and going to school with kids who'd been together since they were in kindergarten.

John Lithgow

I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.

John Lithgow

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

John Lithgow

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

John Lithgow

If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.

John Lithgow

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

John Lithgow

The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

John Lithgow

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

John Lithgow

Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.

John Lithgow

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.

John Lithgow

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

John Lithgow

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

John Lithgow

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

John Lithgow

'Love Is Strange' was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.

John Lithgow

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

John Lithgow