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James Lipton Biography

James Lipton (born September 19, 1926) is 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.

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I became an actor by accident, not by design.

Accident, Accidents, Actor, Actors, Design

There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.

Brian, Coward, Man, Men

When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.

Important, Liable, Strong, Talking, Thing

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.

Act, Elation, May, Poorly, Turns, Writing

I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know.

Answer, Answers, Art, Examination, Know, Lawyer

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.

Actors, Earn, Fit, Good, Jobs, School

When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

Antics, Art, Father, Intention, Mother, University

I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

Alone, Confess, New York, Study, Writing

There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

Actors, Affective, Emotional, Memories, Memory, Use

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.

Case, Cases, Genius, Olivier, Trouble

The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

Answers, Ask, People, Question, Rare, Rare Occasion

The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.

Acting, Difference, Differences, Disjunctive, Film, Fundamentals

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 course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

Convinced, Fence, Fences, Horse, Leave, Missing

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.

Airplane, Competition, Horse, Jumping, Quite, Thinking

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.

Hackman, Live In The Moment, Mean, Moment, Split, Splits

Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.

Language, Natural, Protection, Woodlands

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.

Kings, Preinterview, Somebody, Tape, Three, Would Be

I think that anybody's craft is fascinating. A taxi driver talking about taxi driving is going to be very, very interesting.

Driver, Fascinating, Interesting, Talking, Taxi, Thinking

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.

Able, Conversation, Kind, Talking, Way

I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

Actor, Actors, Director, Directors, Television, Writer

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