Inside the Actors Studio (1994– )
James Lipton: Self - Host, Self
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Quotes
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James Lipton : What is your least favorite word?
Mark Wahlberg : Is "Marky Mark" one word?
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James Lipton : What is your favorite curse word?
Jack Lemmon : Cocksucking motherfucker.
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[Lipton tries to get De Niro to say "You talkin' to me?"]
James Lipton : The film Taxi Driver. In which, you spoke those immortal words...
Robert De Niro : [uncomfortable] Well, you know... The usual.
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[Repeated line]
James Lipton : We begin as always at the beginning.
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[interviewing the cast of "The Simpsons" as their characters]
James Lipton : Homer, what is your full name?
Dan Castellaneta : Homer J. Simpson. The J stands for Jay.
James Lipton : What do you do at the Nuclear Power Plant?
Dan Castellaneta : I am a safety inspector. I tell people to be safe. And safen up!
James Lipton : Safen up?
Dan Castellaneta : Safen up!
James Lipton : Since you're still here, and Springfield is still here, I assume you have an umblemished record.
Dan Castellaneta : Well... there's a few blemishes on it.
James Lipton : Ever come close to a meltdown?
Dan Castellaneta : Oh, a number of times! If that's what you mean by "blemishes".
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Meryl Streep : [taking about Out of Africa] Sydney, I remember, didn't think I was sexy enough to play it.
James Lipton : What did you do about that?
Meryl Streep : They didn't have wonderbras in those days, but I wore a padded bra... a push-up bra and a low cut top... isn't that tragic?
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[regarding Lipton's guest appearance on "The Simpsons," in which Ranier Wolfcastle appears on "Inside the Actor's Studio," gets into character as McBain, and shoots Lipton]
James Lipton : Would it have been too much trouble for you to go out and get a prop gun?
Harry Shearer : [as Ranier Wolfcastle] I'm not the prop man. I'm the actor!
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James Lipton : I believe you're a man who believes in revenge.
Harry Shearer : [as Montgomery Burns] Yes! Hence the hounds.
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James Lipton : What is your favourite word?
Meryl Streep : I... well, y'know, I don't want to lie...
James Lipton : Don't lie.
Meryl Streep : Because I knew that this was coming and so I asked my daughter what her favourite word is and she's six and ever since she said her favourite word, which she said without hesitating, I can't think of anything else...
James Lipton : Say it.
Meryl Streep : Coconut milk.
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James Lipton : [Repeated question to guests that have experience in stand up comedy] can comedy be taught or is it genetic?
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James Lipton : [Repeated line to actors after they've worked with him] What's the Jack Nicholson experience like?
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James Lipton : [to guests that are actors and stand up comedians] can comedy be taught or is it genetic?
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James Lipton : [Repeated line to actors after they've worked with him] What's the John Hughes experience like?
