if you want to move. big business against. all. safety. on larry king. james well my style is. all. it takes me two to three weeks. to prepare for. work seven days a week and i work twelve hours a day you know mr trump for a long time. and therefore when the time came for the election i recused myself. that i didn't want to live with somebody who was. good for. one of my students as achieved so much that he or she comes back.

to us as we started this. job you have a red. head was watching the last night through cassidy to the point when i was thirteen and i spent the summer translating all of this. into all next on larry king. larry king now very special guest is the creator and executive producer and writer and iconic host of inside the actor's studio james lipton the one and only who this year was seen just twenty of them a nomination james is also a director playwright choreographer lyricist author and academic it's an honor to welcome you so it's an honor to be here thank you very done so many things in your life toward still matter to you oh you bet. gary do the you know why why because

the old cliche is it's an honor just to be nominated within that lies the kernel of a great truth is an honor to be nominated thousands of shows out there thousands of better shows than mine i'm sure and yet year after year were chosen by. coeval as inside the actors studio ever get old to you know what keeps it fresh good guests i do have to say this to you every guest is different every guest is unique every guest has his own life and entail to tell inside the actor's studio how to bet shows. was a member of the actor's studio and. we've for years had been a very reclusive organization. nobody was allowed inside it was a private place and and it had it didn't charge any kind of admission price or anything and as a result it was going broke and one night after

a meeting. was worried about what was going have happen in the studio and i had this notion that. somehow or other we could save ourselves by creating for the first time. a school. and we did create the school the school took off within three years it was the largest graduate drama school in america and then i had one category that wasn't covered that was people whom i knew work with members of the studio who were too busy to be on the show more than once in their lifetime and so i wrote to them and said would you come and do this and everybody answered and i sent word back into the television community and said these people lived to say something worth preserving however the television that's how it was born and you describe your style and well i think will ferrell is already done sufficiently but my style is is preparation is

all in the preparation you do you don't do that so much you are much quicker than i am in life but everything is in the preparation it takes me two to three weeks or more to prepare for every single guest and i work seven days a week and i work twelve hours a day and there are actors and directors and writers and writers when you research that but then you know a lot going in need i do but but the guest is not because there is absolutely no pre interview we go out there and we go up to it's like a circus there's a tight wire up there with no net where i'm on sit with them for four hours it's a master class of the actors studio drama school of pace university and so we're up there on that tight wire with no net for hours and neither of us knows what's coming next isn't that wonderful any when you're not been able to get well. brando as opposed to. the. tats off to you and i'm sure you have every idea good

but the one person i want of the most. when i was asked the answer was always the same i was dean for ten years of data driven school and i have answered the night that one of my students has achieved so much that he or she comes back and sits down in the chair next to me will be the night i've waited for since we started this thing twenty three years ago and it turned out to be bradley cooper. he was a student he was i auditioned him if i had turned him down he would have gone on to a different career what did you see in him i saw in him what i see in or dishes i auditioned everybody what i was dean very little ploy and it is a unique accessibility to the self i can't this it's very difficult to describe but it's not there it's not there and if it is you spot it

would you recognize your sister in a crowd that's what happens to me when i see that and i went down to the stage and i said to him if we accept you you're ready for three years with us and he started to cry and said yes he cried again when he came on the show. wept bitterly walked on the stage he's as comfortable in theaters or using film is the elephant man that was his master's degree thesis in our school how about that yes. and he did it on broadway what a man. some actors can be difficult correct they can be who had problems with one the reason being that i have only one criterion is this factor a writer director have something to teach our students is a master class and nobody has ever let me down there's a relationship between the guest and those masters to be candidates out there it's a very different relationship and it colors the whole event had your being an actor

. makes it better for you of course and i hope it makes it better for the guest colin firth won the oscar after he appeared on our show for the purpose of publicizing his candidacy and he wrote me. a letter saying no one has ever. taught me as much in the time that i was facing him and who knew as much as i did about my own craft i i don't but i wish i did you grew up in detroit and that city is revitalized now things are jumping in detroit that's what i hear i hope it's true what was it like growing up there. look my father was a poet he was a very famous american poet he was a beatnik poet my mother was a teacher. the net result of that was that we grew up without a nickel in our g. i mean the poor times and we were very very poor so it was tough my father who couldn't wait for me to read his poetry taught me to read when i was one and a half years old i could read when i was one and half years old i doubted that

later in life and my mother said i can prove that what she said i used to take you on a trolley up to see how many and ferndale and you would sit on my lap and you would read everything that we passed i'd walk a mile for a camel you would see people thought i was a puppet public. and you were pop they thought you were a puppet and when i was three i was writing i wrote when i was twelve i wrote three novels none of a very good but nevertheless that was the influence of those two people my father and my mother until he left and vanished you and i are both known mr trump for a long time and i know thirty five years i think i know him as long do you make what i make my relationship with him of course had nothing to do with politics as long as political friends but a real friend when when i. used to do one me. it was for a two hundred fiftieth anniversary show and. he was on the show he tweeted out the

nicest things anybody's ever said about me congratulating me and saying was an honor to be on the show and his son donald two years every year the radio city music hall christmas spectacular i take him and his family to their family to me and therefore when the. time came for the election i recused myself for the obvious reason that i didn't want to get into a political argument with somebody who has been a really really good for and did you have a mentor who helped you yes what was her greatness her greatness was that she understood thoroughly the stanislaw school system and taught it in a way that i was able to understand and that others have been able to understand it changed my life it taught me what a teacher teaches what a teacher does and it taught me the craft. i'm not a great actor god knows but anything i know about i have to use but i've had stanislav ski actors also tell me their praise for example anthony quinn

told me i love the stuff starsky method that he thought gary cooper was amazing. status laughs he said there are those who believe that. by the grace of god and they don't need any kind of system but on occasion that deserts them what happens when they act by the grace of god not will but badly that he said is when you need a conscious trained learned technique that will bring you back to the center of the moment. your name b m eighty three kid i hate being old. i wish i were young i don't want to not exist do you fear death. you know i feel very remote from death i don't feel remote in the sense that i

don't have increasingly as time goes by. friends who had done elizabeth camp from my arse who ran the acting department of a school died last weekend and all of us at the studio are still trying to cope she was a genius so i see death around me i. don't look forward to that moment but it's not something that preoccupies me i'm too busy living why do we. like praise look up to actors so much because they represent us because they are up there on stage or or on the screen doing things saying things being things that we know in our heart of hearts we also are and it resonates in us and as a result we form a relationship with them that is not like any other relationship in the arts it's

funny albert chinos a very good friend when i see him on stage he did very well in ross work. he became that person could lead always how we had dinner after the show but on the stage he was that percy is transformed for that moment by and by by the way technically transformed he was trained thoroughly by these drugs and is absolutely a product of the actor's studio and when he what happens is that when the camera turns. he is literally transformed and is not he is not you know for the time that he is being x. or y. or z. the willing suspension of disbelief that well i have to do that that's what the audience was writing was willing to suspend disbelief and there are actors who enable you to do that very readily because they so thoroughly inhabit the character

that they have chosen to play you like the british school of acting like it. was a great actor sure. the british school of acting was bypassed by the system which jumped over england and came to america with a group theatre and as a result there are two different kinds of acting but for example i don't have kids was on my show he said while i was studying at rada studying this classical technique which which is more present taishan oh and. he said that i was secretly taking lessons with a teacher the same as last the system so he he combines them both when you combine them both your talent can't be taught technique can and so if you bring a wonderful talent to the table and at the same time you learn a. technique then you get the great ones the really great is up next good

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a stage. the feel. the world. according. to james lipton and have them with us i understand you've developed a product called needs ease to help with this you bet tell me about it well i studied ballet for many years when you studied ballet you jump a lot you learned a lot you take it in the knees and as you as you probably know i sure. develop

arthritis much more at a much younger age than other people i did when you develop arthritis pain in the knees i would wake up at night and uncomfortable for the child wake up time after time after time what does the doctor tell you the doctor or the orthopedist tells you sleep with a pillow between your knees the problem with that is the pillow migrates and then i had an idea i thought them. one night what if somehow that hello small neat were attached to you what if it were actually filling your need so that no matter what position you took during the night you were comfortable and you stopped waking and i stopped waking up i took it to a panel of physicians and they they worked with me over a three year period developing the final product which is knees which is unlike anything else i'm going to get it you get it in newsies dot com the head of pain management of the hospital with a search special surgery has been following us for three years and said there is nothing on earth like it if there were i would know it how long you suffered with

it for years and since i stopped dancing and so you have no pain at night none none that abs not once once i was asked to give my knees to somebody else for a night i did and i was up half the night i thought my god i've been spared this all these years other people can be spared it works gotta pay more attention to chronic pain sufferer. and look at all who do look what you have done over all of medicines those people straight to kill pain i know i know we play every game of if you only knew was a secret talent you have a secret talent that i have. learned i still convincing myself that i have any talent at all person you would trade places with for days i would trade places with pope francis think of what i could accomplish in twenty four hours guilty pleasure i love boxing boxing yeah i watch boxing and i and i know that i know that it's

there's something wrong about that but i like watching like mayweather. yeah i did when he was at its peak last time you were star struck. this is going to sound stupid. if you're talking about inside the studio has never occurred i have not felt that way because what are we talking about we talk about craft the actors craft their students out there on the dino if you're asking questions it's a masterclass there's no room in that for the starstruck best compliment you ever got the best compliment i ever got i mean nominations are a bad complement twenty of them were the fifth most nominated television series in the history of broadcast television how about that and we are a school i'll take that as a compliment readers job you ever had the weirdest ever had was washing the last of nitric acid in a photo grave when i was thirteen i had to be closed in the room shack because to

protect the other workers from the fumes and i spent the summer translating all of the profit the songs of the time into latin and what not to go crazy and i would sing in latin and there in my piping voice until the boss came in one of. it's over you know more singing. the other workers can't stand it i'll give an actor or you wasn't bad. do you have a favorite question sure. you know what it is that heaven exists what would you like to say when you arrive at the pearly gates. willingly americans who just because of it every time somebody does i get calls for twenty four hours every show on television just to talk about. what is something you wish you were better at. or for. strangers fan encounter. that happened once and i and my wife and i parked our car and large block to block

on the status street to our house and there were five or six fire engines in the block there'd been a false alarm and they were packing up and. the firemen in the in the first one we passed they lived in what's your favorite curse word and the they all poured out and we got a standing ovation from five the five trucks as we passed them it seems that policemen and firemen who have a lot of leisure time watching the actors studio don't ask me why but they do and i'm very grateful that they do and that night was a standing ovation from five fire trucks. to tell them the word my favorite curse word. you can say it here oh i can say anywhere in it isn't scatological which is not obscene it's profane and does offend people and is jesus christ when i'm upset that's what cops right away jesus called rices so what's a luxury you can't live without. almost any with my wife and i we need

we need to run this simple life. i don't. i don't think about bangs or maybe mike my car or home in bridgehampton i guess that would be something you long believed to be true and then realize wasn't. that inevitably life will be just tell me something people don't know about you. because. i guess of the lot of things they don't know. mostly i worry about what i don't know. and have plenty of that going on some social media question karen woo chaison who was the most difficult person on your show you're looking at him.

d. thirteen fifty eight was there ever an interview where he was lost for words because from the response the interviewer gave was so unexpected when it's unexpected. i'm sure you agree with the best possible morse when that answer comes out of left field then we're off and running then the preparation counts you have is i'm ready to go in any direction you have an example of a guess that i was sure when i asked jack lemmon about today's wine and roses and i . talked about my favorite scene when he stands up in front of a and says as they were trying to get him to say them and because i liked my students to hear the person on stage in person and he said my man name isn't so and i want an alcoholic which is what they say. and it was a brief pause and i said to the students you see no pushing he didn't push you don't have to push comes he said which i have. i said i beg your pardon he's

speaking as the character now or as jack and speaking is jackie said i'm an alcoholic and in the green room afterward his wife said to me that's the first time in his life that he has ever said that the public eye interviewed him many times and never knew that. good man james jay roach one if he had the chance what one movie role would you like to play. to have been ripped as a. wreck. why was so special about that film. because it was a perfect movie was a perfect was a movie movie he was pretty awesome to have took place during the war and it. is just there are better movies and more important movies but there are none that are more ideal movie movies it's v. for me. start of a beautiful friendship. perhaps the bubble of fishy water scott edwards g.b.

who inspired you to pursue a career in television. nobody did i just drifted into television because there was so much going on and york and then everybody started moving to hollywood because of the cost of. property in new york. and so we all began doing more and more television chris sell us how long it takes for him to prepare how much research does he have a team that helps you know i have somebody who gives me raw material they fill my computer with raw materials just from and i started the day a person was born and i gradually as i'm working in my computer creating those blue cards i see a pattern emerging i start to fall i start of and in the end it has a beginning a middle and an end it's a narrative it's a conversation it's something like i watch king do for many years and try to emulate it thank you. very honored but one riccardo di is would love if you share

a story about robin williams robin williams was on the show. it was our first two hour show asked him how he does what he does and he demonstrated with a young woman in the front row with a pass me that he did five minutes which he has admitted that people work with the generally speaking the public is that is one of the greatest five minutes in the history of television in which he improvised with that media one thing after another and subsequently i said to me you know what you don't know is the young woman from whom you took the pashmina to do that great improvisation is my god daughter and we gave her the media for christmas wow. that was a tragedy is death. tell me about it. brown did you ever try to get more brando oh marlon used to call me he would call me in the office and we would talk i'm never going to be on inside the actor's studio because lee strasberg said he trained me and i was trained as

a model and i was trained come on we'll talk about what do you know about the american indian we had long conversations and driving. he had nothing else to do up there he didn't mark talk about acting. no he didn't he spit the bit. to use a question term and he decided that it wasn't a word the. patient despite the fact that for a few brief years he was the greatest live on the tonight show and he kissed when he said acting is lying for a living and he'd rather read the play than watch the play a lot of his contemporaries took umbrage with him and were saying it isn't like you know it in you know why it is in line for a living because what he was every single moment of of that moment you were in search of the truth which is the opposite of lying he was talking nonsense in the end he was talking absolute nonsense but he was a greatest for a while brooke drivers please ask his favorite comedy. my favorite comedy

would have to be important to me in this school just makes me laugh more than any other you are a delight to syria or my. thanks to my guest the great james lived inside the actor's studio airs on bravo could always find me on twitter with kings things see an extra.

here's what people have been saying about. exactly it's pull along awesome was the only show i go out of my way to launch you know we wanted to use them really packs a punch at least yampa is the john oliver of hearty americans do the same we are apparently better than the flu vaccines that some see say but you never heard of love redacted tonight not the president of the world bank though hates it and doesn't really mean it seriously he sent us an email i do not know if the russian state hack into john podesta scheme ailes and gave them to wiki leaks but i do know barack obama's director of national intelligence has not provided credible to support his claims of russia i also know he perjured himself in a senate hearing planned three months before the revelations provided by edward

snowden he denied the deep n.s.a. was carrying out wholesale surveillance of the us. the hyperventilating corporate media has once again proved to be an echo chamber for government claims that cannot be verified you would have thought they would have learned something after serving as george w. bush's useful idiots in the lead up to the invasion of iraq. it is vitally important that the press remains rooted in a fact based universe especially when we enter an era when truth and fiction are becoming indistinguishable. i said but not a fully gun is one up at the foot of mountain tops and. then a good many that don't even see that young. people and that these scumbags that have led by east.

ok well to do much damage in the night. if you're a fan of the show you've seen me talk before about how i feel about about commercials and i'm not trying to say the bad about them i just think they're to a nation of noxious black holes of corey ativan the lie that are useless mindless piles of infection the scrapings off the bottom of the the cesspool of humanity's anus. but other than that they're kind of funny.