There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
And I thought if I don't pre-interview - first of all, we couldn't afford it - but the second thing was it would force… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
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,… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
We are the only school in America, drama school in America that trains actors, writers and directors side by side for three years in… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. — James Lipton Copy Share Image
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
