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James Lipton

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

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Donna Grant

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

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Donna Grant

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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Donna Grant

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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Donna Grant

"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."

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Donna Grant

"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."

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Donna Grant

"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."

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Donna Grant

"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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Donna Grant

"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."

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Donna Grant

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

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Donna Grant

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

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James Lipton
"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 talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong."

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James Lipton
"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 the years and I said come and teach our students."

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

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James Lipton
"The definition of genius, really, should be that that person can do what the rest of us have to learn how to do."

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James Lipton
"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."

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James Lipton
"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."

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

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James Lipton
"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."

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

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James Lipton
"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 to say, Look, you do what we like you to do or else."

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