I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer.
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong. - James Lipton
When you're talking about the thing that is most important to someone, they're liable to feel something strong.
- 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. - 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.
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. - 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.
There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray. - James Lipton
There's only one man I've called a coward, and that's Brian Doyle-Murray.
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy. - James Lipton
I would say that writing, both the act of writing, and of course reading of other people's work is, for me, supreme joy.
I became an actor by accident, not by design. - James Lipton
I became an actor by accident, not by design.
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 Aven… - 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 Aven…
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive. - James Lipton
The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes. - James Lipton
Our language, one of our most precious natural resources, deserves at least as much protection as our woodlands, streams and whooping cranes.
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