James Lipton Quotes

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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…
• 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 me…
• And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do…
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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…
• I was dealing with craft, and that's the surprising thing, the number of people who have literally broken down on our stage, because when you're…
• I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.
• They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors.
• 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…
• 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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