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1 " The most exciting acting tends to happen in roles you never thought you could play. "
― John Lithgow
2 " Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. "
3 " I Need a Good Book I need a good story.I need a good book.The kind that explodesOff the shelf.I need some good writing,Alive and exciting,To contemplate all by myself.I need a good novel,I need a good read.I probably needTwo or three.I need a good taleOf love and betrayalOr perhaps an adventure at sea.I need a good saga.I need a good yarn.A momentous and mightilyOr slight one.But with thousands and thousandsAnd thousands of books,I need someone to tell meThe right one. -John Lithgow "
4 " If you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you are doomed to become an actor. "
― John Lithgow , Drama: An Actor's Education
5 " Time sneaks up on you like a wind shield on a bug. "
6 " mine is the only photograph of an American actor to grace the walls of the Actors’ Bar at The Dirty Duck. "
7 " A year of weekly paychecks had created a severe dependency in me, and I desperately needed to break it. "
8 " My great hero was that archetype of cheerful American normalcy, Norman Rockwell. "
9 " 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. "
10 " had traveled to London to study acting, pricked on by the sense that classical English acting was the high-water mark in English-speaking theater. I would soon learn a surprising truth: I came from America, home to an acting tradition that my new English friends envied, to an even greater degree than I envied theirs. "
11 " I always knew I'd be preaching to the choir. Slap the title 'Dumpty' on a book of political humor, and your bias is glaringly obvious. From the beginning, I've intended these verses for people who oppose our current President, hoping to briefly yank them out of their chronic depression at his persistent grip on executive power. "
― John Lithgow , Dumpty: The Age of Trump in Verse (Dumpty, #1)
12 " It slowly dawned on me that, for most of the audience, the show’s main attraction was neither the play nor the production but Liv. "
13 " Burton began that evening gracious, charming, and sober. Liv and I watched in fascination and horror, exchanging eye-rolling glances, as too much drink gradually turned that splendid man into a boorish, self-loathing sot. "
14 " blithering idiot, gone round the bend: "
― John Lithgow , Trumpty Dumpty Wanted a Crown: Verses for a Despotic Age (Dumpty, #2)
15 " Despite the opposition of several prominent Republican officials, "
16 " POTUS whose pants are routinely on fire Could be Dumpty the Huckster or Dumpty the Liar. With his bullshit throughout our pandemic attack, An apt nom de guerre would be Dumpty the Quack. "
17 " Dumpty the Bigot. "
18 " My snobbery made me do it. "
19 " he’s Dumpty the "
20 " Worst. "
