76 Quotes by James Lipton

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 master's degree program, and we want them - to expose them to everything.

We still are now nothing more than a course. The show will continue to be a classroom, with the students as our audience, in a great institution.

We teach them ballroom dancing, because for so much of their careers they will be partnering each other the way you and I are right now.

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.

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

Not just project, but on stage, you have to begin at the beginning and end at the end, and you're out there, you can't stop for anything.

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 sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.

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

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.