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Money is just a low priority for me. I'm more interested in good work than a big bank account.

~John Lithgow

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I'm as vain as the next person, but I've made so much fun of myself over the years, and that's very salutary as you grow older.

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If you go through your life being completely truthful, everybody will hate you, and something I deeply fear is being hated.

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People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.

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I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.

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I loved growing up in Ohio.

~John Lithgow

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My hairline is receding. So my days as a romantic lead - even though I've never had them - are behind me.

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When people are taking something extremely seriously, that's the time to take out the pig's bladder.

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Every time I see somebody behaving truly insanely in real life, I think, 'Yes! I'm not over the top after all!'

~John Lithgow

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I work very hard on motivating everything I do as an actor. Explosive moments have to be completely motivated; whether they're explosive comedy or explosive horror, they have to come organically out of a scene and an interaction with another actor.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 19th, 1945

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