My Only Regret Is That We Didn't

I Need A Good Book I Need A Good Story. I Need A Good Book. The Kind That Explodes Off The Shelf. I Need Some Good Writing, Alive And Exciting, To Contemplate All By Myself. I Need A Good Novel, I Need A Good Read. I Probably Need Two Or Three. I Need A Good Tale Of Love And Betrayal Or Perhaps An Adventure At Sea. I Need A Good Saga. I Need A Good Yarn. A Momentous And Mightily Or Slight One. But With Thousands And Thousands And Thousands Of Books, I Need Someone To Tell Me The Right One. -john Lithgow

Shakespeare Is Like Mother's Milk To Me.

The Problem Is That People Are Pulling Farther Apart, Rather Than Make An Effort To Get Back Together. There Have Been Remarkable Moments That United This Country. It Makes Everyone Feel Relieved. Then Because Of Economic Stress, Political Shifts, We Get Wrenched Apart Again. I Think It's Cyclical. I Am An Optimist By Nature. There Are Moments, The Period After 9/11, The Way We Responded. The Election Of Barack Obama. There Are Moments Where The Country Felt Good About Being American. I'm Waiting For That To Happen Again.

Having Grown Up In The Theater Family, Having Done A Huge Amount Of Acting From A Very Little Boy To Precocious Teenager In Shakespeare Festivals That My Father Produced, I Went Off To College And Fell In With The Theater Gang. I Was Already An Experienced Actor. I Became A Kind Of Campus Star. I Heard All This Applause And Laughter.

I'm As Flighty As Anybody. You Put A Lot Out There. I've Been Through The Process A Lot. When I Play A Major Role, It's My Instinct To Create A Nice Atmosphere. People In The Major Roles Dominate The Tone Of An Entire Film. To My Mind, It's Much Easier To Work Creatively When Everyone's Friendly.