“I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated...” — John Lithgow Quote

“I like to rehearse and rehearse and have everything exactly calculated before we start shooting - probably to a fault.”

“My sense of myself is that I'm a character actor, and character actors are ready, willing, and able to do anything, to be totally different from themselves. That's my job, to be ready. I'm some kind of first responder.”

“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.”

“The worst is when men try too hard, because it's not very masculine. Your outfit has to look like 'Oh, I just grabbed that.' Not too calculated. Jeans, a t-shirt: the simpler the better.”

“The uncertainty relation does not refer to the past; if the velocity of the electron is at first known and the position then exactly measured, the position for times previous to the measurement may be calculated.”

“Sometimes, I think 'The Spectator' is calculated to embarrass me.”