Zitat des Tages von John Lithgow:
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.
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.
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.
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.
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
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.
There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!
Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.
Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
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.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.
An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.
I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.
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.
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Good acting is really excellent carpentry.
I gave up shame a long time ago.
I have a lot of faith in people.
Whenever I play a role, it's like I've been kidnapped inside my own body.
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.
I was on the Harvard board of overseers for six years, between 1989 and 1995.
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
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.
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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.
It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.
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.
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.
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
'Love Is Strange' was just a beautiful experience in so many ways.
We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.