James Lipton

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen. ↗

— James Lipton

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It can be summed up in one sentence. Does this person have something to teach my students? No one has ever let us down. ↗

— James Lipton

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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. ↗

— James Lipton

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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

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

— James Lipton

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The foundation for film acting is stage acting. ↗

— James Lipton

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The studio is meant to be always a place where, first of all, they can be out of spotlight, and second, where they could work with a peer group on parts that they might not have played otherwise. ↗

— James Lipton

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They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show. ↗

— James Lipton

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They will take a role that scares them over a role that doesn't. That's another thing I like about actors. ↗

— James Lipton

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What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before. ↗

— James Lipton

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