The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,'… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Growing up I didn't want to be an actor. I sort of didn't want to go into the family business; the main… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Oh, I'm dying to play Donald Trump someday, just because he's an unbelievable character. I'm a character actor; that's what you look… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I tell young people, including my own kids, don't do this, it's too difficult. It's a career full of rejection, disappointment and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Having grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
One of the things you learn as an actor is that human beings are capable of almost anything. I'm sort of in… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
'M. Butterfly' is usually the answer to the question, 'What has been your favorite experience?' The reason being, it is an astonishing… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
If you're an actor, you tend to fool yourself into thinking you're much younger than you are because you're playing parts and… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I got to have a great big knock-down, drag-out fight with Sylvester Stallone. Every actor should have that much fun at some… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The first long chapter of my career was almost entirely theater so that, by the time I was 30, 35, I sort… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It's nice when you've done enough movies that you can do your own anthology. — John Lithgow Copy Share
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… — John Lithgow Copy Share
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… — John Lithgow Copy Share
The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and… — John Lithgow Copy Share
I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know,… — John Lithgow Copy Share
My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my… — John Lithgow Copy Share
I'm as flighty as anybody. You put a lot out there. I've been through the process a lot. When I play a major role,… — John Lithgow Copy Share
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. — John Lithgow Copy Share
