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… — James Lipton Copy Share Image
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. — 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
