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Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract.

~John Lithgow

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An artist is always thinking of something else. My father was like that. He had this feeling of abstraction, and I do, too.

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I really prize and love great painting.

~John Lithgow

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I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31.

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I went to Princeton High School when I was very serious about being an artist.

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

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When I was a teenager, I remember the extraordinary feeling of accomplishment for completing 'Vanity Fair.' I don't think it was even for school.

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

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When I was 13 years old, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Washington, D.C., and they just deposited me at the National Gallery. I would go from Rembrandt to Picasso - I remember that experience so vividly.

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My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 19th, 1945

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