Inside the Actor's Studio - Bernard Pivot's Questionnaire

[Nomad559]

1.What is your favorite word?
Knowledge

2.What is your least favorite word?
Republican

3.What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Learning - the exchange of ideas in all its forms - Solving a difficult problem.

4.What turns you off?
Deception

5.What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck

6.What sound or noise do you love?
Rain fall

7.What sound or noise do you hate?
Noisy (screaming) children

8.What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Writer - Unfortunately my writing sucks, It's really difficult for me to put down my thoughts In print.

9.What profession would you not like to participate in?
Door to Door salesman

10.If heaven exists, what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
Turn your ass around Heathen

[Bertha Venation]

1. cool, I've always wanted to answer these questions

although I'd imagined it in a different context. <sigh>

I'll post my answers tomorrow. Limited time.

(uh... this is an invitation to follow suit, no?)

[Nomad559]

2. uh... this is an invitation to follow suit, no?)

Yes, please do :)

Lasso of Truth

[hippiechick]

3. mine ...

1. scrumptious
2. cunt
3. seeing the light or fire in someone's eyes when i explain something to them and they understand, their own curiousity is piqued, and they set off to learn - and share - more of what i've taught them.

4. shallow, closed minded people who deride you until you're proven right, then suddenly your idea which used to be so stupid was theirs all along.

5. JesusmotherfuckingChrist
6. hearing my dog sleeping/snoring next to me in bed
7. extra loud car stereo bass
8. writing
9. anything military or child care related
10. 'Hippie, you were right all along!'


:hippie:

[underpants]

4. FINALLY!!!!!

Geez these people have been wasting their damned time 'til now

Hello
superfluous
dreams
jewelry
many but I'll pick shit
a train whistle in the middle of the night in Richmond
a LONG train whistle in the middle of the night in Richmond
(aside from sports) actor/comedian/but what I really want to do is direct
anything involving drywall
Johnny said you'd be here

Johnny was my grandfather's name

[VOX]

5. Well, Mr. Lipton, let me have a go at it...

1.What is your favorite word?
Mellifluous.

2.What is your least favorite word?
Excellence.

3.What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
A trip to the desert.

4.What turns you off?
Betrayal.

5.What is your favorite curse word?
Fuck.

6.What sound or noise do you love?
Crickets on a summer night.

7.What sound or noise do you hate?
Leaf blowers.

8.What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Astronomy.

9.What profession would you not like to participate in?
Anything involving dealing with the public.

10.If heaven exists, what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
Welcome, son -- all your pets are waiting for you.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

6. R U James Lipton or Will Ferrel Doing James Lipton?

1.What is your favorite word?
Meow.

2.What is your least favorite word?
Republican

3.What turns you on creatively, spiritually or emotionally?
Intelligence.

4.What turns you off?
Ignorance.

5.What is your favorite curse word?
Motherfucker, among many others.

6.What sound or noise do you love?
Rain, kitties purring.

7.What sound or noise do you hate?
The sound of Dubya's voice.

8.What profession other than yours would you like to attempt?
Diplomat.

9.What profession would you not like to participate in?
Assembly Line work.

10.If heaven exists, what would you like to hear god say when you arrive at the pearly gates?
Aunt Shirley and Lulu are here!

[DoctorBombay]

7. Mine...

Favorite Word - comrade

Least Favorite Word - pious

What turns you on? - creativity

What turns you off? - close-mindedness

Sound or noise you love? - the wind through the top of a palm tree

Sound or noise you hate? - crying babies

Profession you'd like to attempt - poker player

Profession you'd NOT like to attempt - anything having to do with Wall Street.

Favorite curse word - d***head

If heaven exists, what would you like God to say when you arrive at the pearly gates - I guess you were wrong, but I won't hold it against you.

[kskiska]

8. I think that we're misled into believing that James Lipton

is some sort of super acting guru, like the late Lee Strasburg. I've read where he's nothing but a former soap opera actor.

[Nomad559]

9. James Lipton

Mr James Lipton has done much more than acting.

-Snip-

As host of Bravo's Inside The Actors Studio, James Lipton has interviewed more than 80 of contemporary film and theater's most noteworthy contributors. Himself an accomplished director, choreographer, producer, writer of stage and screen and published author, Mr. Lipton has been instrumental in creating what he refers to as "a unique archive" of in-depth looks at the craft of acting.

Both as a writer and as a producer, Mr. Lipton has brought over 25 variety specials, movies and performing arts programs to both network and cable television. His affiliations include ABC, CBS, NBC, Showtime, dick clark cinema and Aaron Spelling Productions. Mr. Lipton's specials include Jimmy Carter's Inaugural Gala (the first Presidential Inaugural Gala ever televised), The Stars Salute Israel at Thirty, Happy Birthday Bob, a three hour salute to Bob Hope's seventy-fifth birthday, an unprecedented series of twelve Bob Hope Birthday Specials and two salutes to country singer Loretta Lynn, Loretta Lynn: The Lady/actorsstudio.the Legend and Loretta In Big Apple County. Mr. Lipton has also written screenplays for a number of "Movies of the Week", including Copacabana, Outfoxed, Alaska Men, Back to the Beach and Mirrors, a film produced by Mr. Lipton and based on his original novel. As President of Jim Lipton Productions, Mr. Lipton has packaged Monteith and Rand and The Peking Opera for Showtime on Broadway, earning critical acclaim from. Mr. Lipton is also the author of An Exaltation of Larks, the best-selling, highly-praised book which has become a publishing classic, remaining in print from 1968 to the present.