List of James Lipton Quotes

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James Lipton
Total Quotes 35
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.
Writing Age Lawyer
Landing the airplane i think is the most difficult thing that i've every learned to do in my life.
Airplane Thinking Difficult
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.
New Year School Years
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.
Kings Would Be Three
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.
Mean Live In The Moment Splits
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.
Genius Trouble Cases
They change. they're different. there are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. but if they have something to teach the students. you can see them writing during the show.
Writing Two Miracle
Comedians don't laugh. they're too busy analyzing why it's funny or not.
Funny Laughing Comedian
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.
Mother Art Father
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.
Horse Airplane Thinking
I love writing. i like reading, other people, not myself.
Reading Writing People
Always accepting the greatest joy of all is the time that i get to spend with my wife.
Wife Joy Accepting
  • Born: September 19, 1926
  • Occupation: Writer
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