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People have expectations from you - and the whole fun of acting is taking expectations and completely upending them. That's how you get laughs in comedy, and that's how you scare the daylights out of people in a horror film.
— John Lithgow
Tags: comedy, fun, people, you

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Will Ferrell is my new favorite person in the business. He's a completely adorable man.
— John Lithgow
Tags: will, new, business, man
My worst audition was for Tim Burton for 'Batman.'
— John Lithgow
Tags: tim, batman, audition, worst
Voice work is fun. But about three-quarters of the things you enjoy about acting are just not there. You're not working with another actor; you're not working with an audience. You're just working with a bunch of writers and a microphone. It's very abstract.
— John Lithgow
Tags: voice, fun, you, work
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.
— John Lithgow
Tags: always, children, people, you
I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.
— John Lithgow
Tags: by-the-time, plays, time
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