John Lithgow
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447
total appearances
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Fresh Air
John Lithgow
There was no question, this is what I'm going to do with my life.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
How did you – did you purge it consciously from your –
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
students, which is 80% Americans, young American acting students.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
And I figured, well, I'm going to make a conscious effort not to absorb an English accent, because after all, I'm going back to act in America.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
But, you know, after two years in London, it's true.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
She said I sounded so pretentious because of my English accent.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
You know, it's clearly I'd absorbed it without knowing it.
Fresh Air
John Lithgow
I just basically began to tell people, no, I'm not English.