197 Quotes by John Lithgow

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

A year of weekly paychecks had created a severe dependency in me, and I desperately needed to break it.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn’t sleep on people’s couches.

I keep looking for things I haven’t done yet.

He told me that, in fact, he had always imagined me as a producer-director, beholden to nobody and immune to the constant rejection that all actors must endure. If you must go into the theater, he advised, be the person in charge and acquire the skills to do it right.

I’m a con artist in that I’m an actor. I make people believe something is real when they know perfectly well it isn’t.

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I’m still employed and employable.

My only regret is that we didn’t have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.