Latest James Lipton Quotes from Interviews

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• I'll miss it until the day I die, and I'm convinced to this day that I can get on a horse and jump a course of fences satisfactorily. It doesn't leave you.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Missing, Fence

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I jumped horses over big dangerous fences in competition. And got very, very good at it, at quite a high level. And I realized long since that, yeah, it's the same thing that appeals to me about it. You can't think about anything else, in either case; jumping horses in competition, show jumping, or flying an airplane, for whatever purpose.

  James Lipton

  Horse, Airplane, Thinking

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I work seven days a week and I work about 12 hours a day, from the beginning of September to about the end of May; the school year. I take two days off, Christmas and New Year's, Thanksgiving sometimes - two and a half. And the result is that I bonded myself to my desk.

  James Lipton

  New Year, School, Years

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• Landing the airplane I think is the most difficult thing that I've every learned to do in my life.

  James Lipton

  Airplane, Thinking, Difficult

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I'd been on everybody else's show and there was always a preinterview. Somebody would come with a tape recorder and you'd talk for three or four hours, and they'd take it back and it would be transcribed, and it would be given to the writers, those many writers you see on all those shows, Larry King, Letterman, Leno, etc. And then they choose the answers that will be most evocative on their show.

  James Lipton

  Kings, Would Be, Three

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that I get to spend with my wife.

  James Lipton

  Wife, Joy, Accepting

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I'd been on all the television programs as an actor, as a writer, as a director, as a producer.

  James Lipton

  Directors, Actors, Television

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• 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

  Reading, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• The Pivot Questionnaire that I ask other people, when I have on rare occasion answered it, the answer to the question, "What turns you on?" Is words. Not mine, other people's. Words, words, words, that's what turns me on.

  James Lipton

  People, Answers, Rare Occasion

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I love writing. I like reading, other people, not myself.

  James Lipton

  Reading, Writing, People

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Elation, May

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write, that's a day well spent.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Good Day, Day Well Spent

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I must confess that when I'm alone in my study, here in New York, writing; that's when I'm happy.

  James Lipton

  New York, Writing, Study

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• 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.

  James Lipton

  Writing, Age, Lawyer

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• There are still actors who use emotional memory, affective memory, which was Lee Strasberg's emphasis, not his total emphasis. She taught everything at the Actor's Studio. But nevertheless, she felt that it impeded her.

  James Lipton

  Memories, Emotional, Use

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• When I went to school, my intention was to be a lawyer. When I attended university that was still the clear intention; I was going to be a lawyer. Why? Because it was as far as I could get from my father's antics and world. I thought that the world of the arts probably led people into the kind of behavior I had seen with him and that had resulted in a lot of hard times for my mother and me.

  James Lipton

  Mother, Art, Father

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I became a professional actor in Detroit and I was able to earn some money. It was a good job because it permitted me to study. It fit perfectly with school.

  James Lipton

  Jobs, School, Actors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.

• I became an actor by accident, not by design.

  James Lipton

  Design, Actors, Accidents

  "Big Think Interview With James Lipton". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. February 9, 2010.