John Lithgow Quotes

I always felt that I was more of an actress than a - I can't tell a joke to save my soul, but that I was a comedic actress.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

I come from an era, in my world, where you just had to define yourself as who you are and what you do. I happen to be an actor. I happen to be someone that loves to act, that also likes music, that also likes to speak, and that also has an opinion.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.

I love to act, I love to sing and I love to entertain, so if I am passionate about a certain project and I want to do it, I hope to stretch my acting skills.

I've never thought of myself as an actor, so somebody recognizing me for that would be a real shock.

A theater is such a revealing form of art, such a transparent and good actors, they're such powerful individuals. I always kind of dreamt that one day I will open my mouth on stage.

It was my life, playing Juliet. From that moment on I was convinced I was going to be an actress. That was all I really wanted to do.

I've always enjoyed performing. I was in figure skating before, and then I joined my first school play. Ever since that, you have not been able to get me out of the theater.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

As a kid, I dreamed about being onstage.

I really love both acting and singing equally.

I became an actor because it was the only thing I could do. I didn't have any friends, I didn't fit in. But when I started acting everything in my life shifted and I felt happy.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

Sometimes you can do Shakespeare and you're still not an actor.

I was the youngest of five, and I think my mother always knew I was meant to be an actress.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

The first time I got on stage I was 10 years old and I did impressions. I did cartoon characters and I really got the bug for this life when I saw that people were laughing and saw the attention I was getting.

Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I think I became an actor because I couldn't sing.

There's nothing wrong with being an actor, if that's what a man wants. But there's everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue".