A biography for John Lithgowhasn’t been written yet.
“I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.”
“I am such a coward when it comes to political arguments. I tend to sort of recoil rather than engage.”
“I have a love/hate relationship with my height - I am 6 ft. 4 in.”
“I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.”
“Powerful people are always in charge. You have to acknowledge that and deal with it as a reality. They're not devils. They're not monsters. They're human beings, like us, that have their share of insecurities and fears. You have to contemplate that as you go through life.”
“If a film is about love, it tends to be about tortured love or discovering love or young love. It's not this wonderful kind of comfortable, old resilient love.”
“I've said no to a lot of things I'd like to have done. My agent has never seen anything like it.”
“It's a delightful thing to do, to entertain kids. They're a completely different audience because of their total lack of irony. You're always after a total suspension of disbelief, but the only people you can really achieve it with is children.”