John Lithgow Quotes


"Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Awards, Perspective)

"When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Successful, End, Theater)

"What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Comedy, Feeling)

"Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving."
- John Lithgow
(Related: People, Care)

"I keep looking for things I haven't done yet."
- John Lithgow
"I never get tired of hearing compliments."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Compliments, Hearing)

"I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Time)

"I'd sleep under a Vermeer."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Sleep)

"I'm a con artist in that I'm an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn't."
- John Lithgow
(Related: People, Actor, Artist)

"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Father, Wife, Decisions, Fun)

"I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Earth, Future)

"If it's well written and well directed and you've got good actors to work with, acting is easy. But making sure all the ducks are in a row is the hard part. It's very rare."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Work, Acting, Actors)

"If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Kids)

"In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Animation, Discovery, Film)

"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
(Related: Time, Comedy)

"Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Time)

"Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Mother, Shakespeare)

"There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Evening, Night, Nothing)

"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Music, Theater)

"Everybody's a dreamer."
- John Lithgow
"For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling."
- John Lithgow
"I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Home, Work, Day, Fun)

"I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Actor)

"I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Idea, Public)

"I gave up shame a long time ago."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Time, Shame)

"I have a lot of faith in people."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Faith, People)

"Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor."
- John Lithgow
(Related: Humor, Senses)