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James Lipton

"Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not."

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Amber Hurdle

"If the universe is anything, it should be fun."

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Amber Hurdle

"It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son."

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Amber Hurdle

"No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was."

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Amber Hurdle

"I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating."

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Amber Hurdle

"The imaginary world has always been the most fun place for me to be."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun."

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Amber Hurdle

"The funny thing is, strangers still seem to feel comfortable coming up to me and saying things, but now usually it's because they recognize me, and they say nice things."

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Amber Hurdle

"Part of me wanted something bloody and really fun."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do you know anything that in all its innocence is more humiliating than the funny pages of a Sunday newspaper in America?"

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James Lipton
"I was originally going to be a lawyer, and the only thing I remember from the art of cross-examination is - you can see this one coming up Sixth Avenue - never ask a question the answer to which you do not know."

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James Lipton
"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."

Work

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James Lipton
"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."

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

Life

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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
"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."

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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."

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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
"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."

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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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