We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated. — 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
I am a storyteller, and the stories I tell are, when I'm lucky, really good ones. It's a very exciting thing to… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!' — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
I got a wonderful college education. I went to Harvard. In those four years I accumulated a lot of knowledge but I… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
That's how you deal with stardom; you make it the least important part of your life. — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve… — 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
