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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I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.
writing elation may
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.
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.
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.
reading writing people
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
new-york writing study
I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.
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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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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 master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.
american-educator
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.
bit quite since venue welcome
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 did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.
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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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What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.