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
acting foundation film
The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
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.
talking able way
I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.
genius trouble cases
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.
laughing comedian analyzing
Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
chocolate box-of-chocolates life-is
Life is just a Box of Chocolates.
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.
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.
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.
jobs school actors
I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.
airplane thinking difficult
Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.
kings would-be three
I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.
television directors actors
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.
american-educator began letter passionate people studio teach whom worked wrote
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.