James Lipton Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.”

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

“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 that and I knew what it was because I come from television.”

“I'll tell you why, I don't invite the ones I don't like.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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 to do my own research, which takes two weeks.”

“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 talk.”