Instead of being a theater actor who sometimes does movies I became a movie actor who sometimes does theater.
John LithgowI 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.
John LithgowYou kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.
John LithgowThe Broadway audience is made up of a greater percentage of tourists now. There's not nearly as much variety and danger and challenge in what's being offered.
John LithgowHaving grown up in the theater family, having done a huge amount of acting from a very little boy to precocious teenager in Shakespeare festivals that my father produced, I went off to college and fell in with the theater gang. I was already an experienced actor. I became a kind of campus star. I heard all this applause and laughter.
John Lithgow