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Other people have often had more faith in me than I had in myself - I never thought I could pull off Roberta Muldoon in 'The World According to Garp,' or 'Of Mice and Men's' Lennie as one of my first acting jobs.

~John Lithgow

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Churchill is so particular. He's as different from the rest of the population of Britain as he is from me.

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Churchill faced his own diminishing capabilities and increasing irrelevance by maintaining the sense that he was the only one who could solve whatever problem was before him. He was very often wrong, of course, but then he had spent so much of his life overcoming appalling mistakes, disasters, and rejections.

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I'm a lazy actor, lazier than you would think. I don't usually do a lot of research.

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The way I approach acting when there's a real life character, it's sort of like a Venn diagram. What I come up with is some amalgam of the two of us.

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I'm probably a better granddad than dad because your role as a grandfather is to be fun, and I'm fun.

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The essence of comedy, drama, and horror is surprise. I have an uncanny ability to surprise people because they look at my face, and they don't know where I'm going.

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We moved around a lot when I was growing up. I was always the new kid in class, but I was good at making friends. With an upbringing like that, I was either going to become an actor or a politician. Thank God I became an actor! I'm not cut out for politics.

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I loved playing Roberta Muldoon!

~John Lithgow

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I look on myself as a sort of hybrid, having grown up in the world of Shakespeare out in the cornfields of Ohio.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: October 19th, 1945

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