Drama Quotes

“mine is the only photograph of an American actor to grace the walls of the Actors’ Bar at The Dirty Duck.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“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

“A year of weekly paychecks had created a severe dependency in me, and I desperately needed to break it.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“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.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“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.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“My great hero was that archetype of cheerful American normalcy, Norman Rockwell.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“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.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“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.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“I went to Harvard because I got in. This is not the best reason to pick a college,”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education

“My snobbery made me do it.”
― John Lithgow, Drama: An Actor's Education