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
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Olivier was another case of a genius, who couldn't understand why anybody would have any trouble doing this, because for him it came so easily.
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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
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Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything.
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I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't 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 don't touch the back of the chair.
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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.
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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.
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I'd like to welcome you all to my venue, which is a bit cheeky, since it isn't my venue quite yet.
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I criticize those critics. The reason being that they're 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.
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I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.
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What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.
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When it began I wrote this passionate letter to people I knew, studio members, of course, and other people with whom we have worked over the years and I said come and teach our students.
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I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
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Because - Bobby Lewis said this once to us in class, the better you get, the less credit you'll get. Because the better you are, the more it looks like walking and talking and everybody thinks they can walk and talk.
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We still are now nothing more than a course. The show will continue to be a classroom, with the students as our audience, in a great institution.