197 Quotes by John Lithgow

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

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.

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

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.

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

I loved growing up in Ohio.

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

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