John Lithgow
John Lithgow
John Arthur Lithgowis an American actor, musician, singer, and author. He has received two Tony Awards, five Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, an American Comedy Award, four Drama Desk Awards and was also nominated for two Academy Awards and four Grammy Awards. Lithgow received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth19 October 1945
CountryUnited States of America
If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.
Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.
What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.
My father was a man of the theater. I grew up in a theater family. As a young man, as a boy, I gypsied around with my siblings and my parents to, like, eight different towns, went to eight different schools. All those things were extremely formative, and I think that's what happens.
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
If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too
The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play.
Everybody's a dreamer.
Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.
I don't hesitate to do nudity as an actor if it's done well.
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.
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.