American - Educator | September 19, 1926 -
I did get Tom Hanks to say, Life is just a box of chocolates.
James Lipton
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The foundation for film acting is stage acting.
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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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The difference - the fundamental difference between theater acting and film acting is that film acting is disjunctive.
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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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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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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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Comedians don't laugh. They're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
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Geniuses always think it's easier than we make it out to be.
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Hackman is able to live in the moment which means there is nothing for him at that split second than what is occurring in the scene.
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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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I had something called the back of the chair test. Where I sit, we don't sit like you and I do. I can see a sliver right behind them and they come out and they sit like this like god students and they don't touch the back of the chair.
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