John Lithgow

Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off…

— John Lithgow

I actually was very proud of 'Dexter' and had a wonderful time doing it, which must make me an extremely weird person.

— John Lithgow

Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve…

— John Lithgow

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

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

I can't get used to the fact that I'm 68 years old. I still feel like a youngster. I am playing a…

— John Lithgow

Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.

— John Lithgow

To my mum, I owe security in a very insecure young life. We lived in about 10 different places because of my…

— John Lithgow

If I don't enjoy it, there's something seriously wrong. There's a reason why they call it playing, what we do. It's ecstatic…

— 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,…

— John Lithgow

When good things come along, you end up saying yes to them. Because they're rare.

— John Lithgow

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

I subscribe to the great George G. Scott quote, "All actors are in trouble. Directors who don't help are a pain in…

— John Lithgow

We all have our secrets, and we all have our deceptions. Acting, at its best, is all about deceiving people, and this…

— John Lithgow

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

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

— John Lithgow

No villain thinks of himself as a villain, and that's the approach I always take.

— John Lithgow

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

When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me…

— John Lithgow

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

— John Lithgow

Grown adults often tell me that they used to sit, as children with their parents, and watch '3rd Rock from the Sun,'…

— John Lithgow

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with…

— John Lithgow

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

— John Lithgow

I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

— 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