John Lithgow

I'm an avid Boston Red Sox fan.

— John Lithgow

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

— John Lithgow

My eagerness to please sometimes gets the better of me.

— John Lithgow

I really prize and love great painting.

— John Lithgow

I keep looking for things I haven't done yet.

— John Lithgow

Good acting is really excellent carpentry.

— John Lithgow

The zombie is the new, sort of, archetype of our times.

— John Lithgow

I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.

— John Lithgow

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

— John Lithgow

My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

— John Lithgow

The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.

— 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

It's very important to stay creative and not simply to wait around for people to want you. It's the hardest thing about…

— 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

We're in the business of using real emotions to bring pretend emotions to life.

— John Lithgow

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife

— John Lithgow

When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

— 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

If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this…

— 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

There's no more private family than the royal family. People who can really only be themselves with each other. The rest of…

— John Lithgow

My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy,…

— John Lithgow

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

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

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 worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'

— John Lithgow

Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.

— John Lithgow

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

— John Lithgow

Anytime a culture is in economic stress, ugly things start happening.

— John Lithgow

I am in the business of exploring crazy possibilities.

— John Lithgow

I don't deal with the nuts and bolts of life.

— John Lithgow

I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.

— John Lithgow

“Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug.”

— John Lithgow

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

— John Lithgow

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

— John Lithgow

I'm a very slow and ponderous reader, but I'm dogged.

— John Lithgow

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

— John Lithgow

Actors are not necessarily smart people.

— John Lithgow

You don't see many films about a long, long relationship.

— John Lithgow

It's pretty rare that I see a film that I did a long, long time ago.

— John Lithgow