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I Always Tell That To Young People - Go To College, Do Theater, Work With An Audience. Don't Try To Learn How To Act In Front Of Millions And Millions Of People. Don't Make That Your First Ambition, To Be On A Sitcom Or Get Into The Movies. Learn Who You Are As An Actor, And The Best Way To Do That Is To Do It In Front Of An Audience.

-John Lithgow

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I Always Tell That To Young People

John Lithgow

I Always Tell That To Young People - Go To College, Do Theater, Work With An Audience. Don't Try To Learn How To Act In Front Of Millions And Millions Of People. Don't Make That Your First Ambition, To Be On A Sitcom Or Get Into The Movies. Learn Who You Are As An Actor, And The Best Way To Do That Is To Do It In Front Of An Audience.

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