Shakespeare is like mother's milk to me.

- John Lithgow

I can't imagine doing an hour-long dramatic series because it's so much work. A sitcom is a wonderful gig. You work from 10 to 4 every day, it's fun, and you get to live at home.

- John Lithgow

The 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 Lithgow

What you aspire to on a sitcom is the feeling of live comedy.

- John Lithgow

Up there with my awards, I have a great big statue of Groucho Marx, just to put everything in perspective.

- John Lithgow

In animation, there's this exhilarating moment of discovery when you see the film and you say, Oh THAT'S what I was doing.

- John Lithgow

I'd sleep under a Vermeer.

- John Lithgow

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

- John Lithgow

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

- John Lithgow

I have a lot of faith in people.

- John Lithgow

I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.

- John Lithgow

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

- John Lithgow

For me, working on stage is much more exhausting than all the other mediums, but it's also much more thrilling.

- John Lithgow

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

- John Lithgow

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.

- John Lithgow

It's a very tough time for the playwright. Broadway has become almost a musical comedy theme park with all these long-running shows.

- John Lithgow

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

- John Lithgow

I gave up shame a long time ago.

- John Lithgow

Academics tend to have wonderfully infantile senses of humor.

- John Lithgow

If you read in front of your kids, it's very likely that they'll become readers, too.

- John Lithgow