John Lithgow

Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

— John Lithgow

I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.

— John Lithgow

I won two Golden Globes, and there was a long, long period in between the wins. That might be explained by the…

— John Lithgow

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

In 1995, I proposed the Harvard Arts Medal. The idea was to celebrate the fact that, although it's rare, Harvard men and…

— John Lithgow

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

— John Lithgow

I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.

— John Lithgow

In TV and movies, you get known for a certain thing, and that's what's expected. Onstage, people are more open to whatever…

— John Lithgow

If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

— John Lithgow

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but…

— John Lithgow

I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.

— John Lithgow

What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was…

— John Lithgow

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we…

— John Lithgow

I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of…

— John Lithgow

I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the…

— John Lithgow

I'm always being asked to play roles or characters that I don't really resemble.

— John Lithgow

The Wodehouse language is so rich and detailed and hilarious.

— John Lithgow

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it…

— John Lithgow

I have a lot of faith in people.

— John Lithgow

I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary…

— John Lithgow

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

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

— John Lithgow

Next to the word 'luvvie' in the dictionary, there's a picture of me. At least in the American editions.

— John Lithgow

I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how…

— John Lithgow

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