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John Lithgow Biography

John Arthur Lithgow (/ˈlɪθɡoʊ/ LITH-goh; born October 19, 1945) is an American actor, musician, poet, author, and singer. He has received two Tony Awards, six Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow has received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and has been inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.

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

Asked, Character, Characters, Play, Roles

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

Inspirational, Motivational, Play, Roles, Thought

I think there are all sorts of ways of turning into an actor, and there are a vast variety of different actors. You know, you interview plenty of actors and you know they come at it from a different direction and acting means different things to a lot of people.

Direction, Interview, Mean, People, Thinking, Vast

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

Age, Class, Divorced, People, Sleep

I have a lot of faith in people.

Faith, People

I went to Harvard and immediately fell into the theater gang, and I was already an experienced actor, so you go with the flow! I've already used the phrase "campus star. "

Actors, Campus, Fell, Flow, Phrases, Stars

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

Actors, Age, Enough, Hears, Laughter

I went to Princeton High School, when I was very serious about being an artist. I was in a theatre family but I didn't want to become an actor.

Artist, Family, Princeton, School, Theatre

It's very interesting, I had an extremely intense experience with my dad in 2002, when he was an old man and very ill and I was taking care of him and my mother, and he was extremely depressed, virtually lost the will to live, and I realized my main job was cheering him up to save his life.

Cheering, Dad, Jobs, Mother, Old

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

Bug, Funny, Inspiration, Time, Windshield

When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.

Ends, Sensible, Sitcom, Successful, Theater

One of the things that gives me a lot of pleasure about both the solo show and the book is that it tells people about my dad. He really was an important man. He was a kind of pioneer of regional theater. He was the first American producer to ever produce all of Shakespeare plays.

Book, Dad, Gives, Men, People, Theater

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

Carousel, Looks, Send, Stories, West

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

Awards, Bigs, Groucho, Perspective, Statue

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

Aspire, Comedy, Feelings, Live, Sitcom

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

Animation, Discovery, Film, Moment, Moments

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

Boyfriend, Dad, Father, Fun, Good

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

Actor, Actors, Became, Doe, Instead, Sometimes

You have to overcome enormous self-consciousness, but nudity is about the strongest thing you can do in an acting performance. It's the most unsettling or the most comic or the most sexual.

Acting, Nudity, Overcoming, Performance, Self, Thing

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

Age, Intermission, Life, Play

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