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
In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.
I never get tired of hearing compliments.
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
When you end a successful sitcom, the most sensible thing to do is go back to the theater.
The Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
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
For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.
I'd sleep under a Vermeer.
We should have charity for what the dead say. We may disapprove of what they say, but we should not insult them and revile them knowing they cannot not defend themselves.
I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.
I always tell that to young people - go to college, do theater, work with an audience. Don't try to learn how to act in front of millions and millions of people. Don't make that your first ambition, to be on a sitcom or get into the movies. Learn who you are as an actor, and the best way to do that is to do it in front of an audience.