James Lipton
James Lipton
James Liptonis an American writer, lyricist, actor and dean emeritus of the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University in New York City. He is the executive producer, writer and host of the Bravo cable television series Inside the Actors Studio, which debuted in 1994...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Producer
Date of Birth19 September 1926
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
good-day writing day-well-spent
A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.
reading writing people
I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.
people answers rare-occasion
The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.
wife joy accepting
Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.
television directors actors
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
new-year school years
I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.
language protection natural
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.
mean live-in-the-moment splits
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.
airplane thinking difficult
Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.
thinking genius easier
Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
chocolate box-of-chocolates life-is
Life is just a Box of Chocolates.
heaven gates pearly-gates
If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
horse airplane thinking
I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.
writing two miracle
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.