The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up… — 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
Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off… — 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
If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all… — 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
People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 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,' with my… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
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 Image
We all grow up with inherited genes and inherited sensibilities, and they run very, very deep. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
