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James Lipton Quotes
And I thought if I dont pre-interview - first of all, we couldnt afford it - but the second thing was it would force me to do my own research, which takes two weeks. - James Lipton Quotes
And I thought, my God, theres an off chance that they will say something thats really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television. - James Lipton Quotes
Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit youll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk. - James Lipton Quotes
Comedians dont laugh. Theyre too busy analyzing why its funny or not. - James Lipton Quotes
Geniuses always think its easier than we make it out to be. - James Lipton Quotes
Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene. - James Lipton Quotes
I criticize those critics. The reason being that theyre doing one of the worst things that ever can be done to an actor, which is to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else. - James Lipton Quotes
I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates. - James Lipton Quotes
I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we dont sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they dont touch the back of the chair. - James Lipton Quotes
I think that anybodys craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting. - James Lipton Quotes
I thought we would have at most an audience of 5,000 devotees because I made the decision to stick to craft, not to gossip, not to be interested in any of the juicy stuff that they talk about on other shows, but stick to the question of craft. - James Lipton Quotes
I threw Spielberg out at 12:15 in the morning. Spielberg and the students. Coppola, out at 12:15. Billy Joel out at 12:15 in the morning. - James Lipton Quotes
I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that youre able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview. - James Lipton Quotes
I was dealing with craft, and thats the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when youre talking about the thing that is most important to someone, theyre liable to feel something strong. - James Lipton Quotes
I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know. - James Lipton Quotes
Ill tell you why, I dont invite the ones I dont like. - James Lipton Quotes
If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen. - James Lipton Quotes
It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down. - James Lipton Quotes
Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and youre out there, you cant stop for anything. - James Lipton Quotes
Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldnt understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily. - James Lipton Quotes
The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do. - James Lipton Quotes
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. - James Lipton Quotes
The first people who responded were Arthur Penn and Sally Field and Dennis Hopper and Alec Baldwin and Paul Newman. - James Lipton Quotes
The foundation for film acting is stage acting. - James Lipton Quotes
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise. - James Lipton Quotes
They change. Theyre different. There are no two alike, thats the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show. - James Lipton Quotes
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesnt. Thats another thing I like about actors. - James Lipton Quotes
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in a masters degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything. - James Lipton Quotes
We teach them ballroom dancing, because for so much of their careers they will be partnering each other the way you and I are right now. - James Lipton Quotes
What I didnt know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. - James Lipton Quotes
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