"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."

Actor, Actors, America, Drama, School

11

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"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."

Exlpore more Actor quotes

"Sure I faced the troubles and challenges that most actors and actresses face until they get noticed, but I was always confident of myself and my capabilities."

Christine Lahti, American Actress

Actor, Actors

"I was an actor... or, at least, I was trying to be an actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

Actor, Trying

"There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me."

Bela Lugosi, Austrian Actor

Actor, Existence, Play, School

"In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor."

Richard Donner, American Director

Actor, Rules

"I've worked with Steven Spielberg three times. I'm proud to say that I'm one of those actors that continues to get hired by the same directors."

Joe Pantoliano, American Actor

Actor, Actors

"My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the actors is dreadful."

Satyajit Ray, Indian Director

Actor, Actors, Day, Film, Light

"The crossover wasn't happening. TV actors were TV actors, and film and stage actors were a whole different thing. And now there's just a lot of crossover."

Christine Lahti, American Actress

Actor, Actors, Film, Now

"One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor."

Wes Anderson, American Writer

Actor,

"An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation."

Billy Wilder, American Director

Actor, Nothing

"A great actor is independent of the poet, because the supreme essence of feeling does not reside in prose or in verse, but in the accent with which it is delivered."

Lee Strasberg, American Director

Actor, Feeling, Prose

Explore more quotes by 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."

Life, Example, Moments, Now

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

Acting, Difference, Film, Theater

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

Actor, Actors, Will

"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."

God, Thought, Chance, Television

"I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates."

Life,

"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."

People, Students, Years

"The foundation for film acting is stage acting."

Acting, Film

"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."

Education, Class, Credit, Talk, Talking

"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."

Actor, Actors, America, Drama, School

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

Genius, Rest