#the actor's studio

[lauraannegilman]

James Lipton has died. Admittedly, after a long life, but I still has a sad.

Let's do the thing.

What is your favorite word? - Susurration What is your least favorite word? - Blatant What turns you on? - generosity of the heart What turns you off? - willful obliviousness What sound or noise do you love? - ocean surf What sound or noise do you hate? - smoke detector alarms What is your favorite curse word? - motherducker What profession other than your own would you like to attempt? - veterinarian What profession would you not like to do? - actor If heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the pearly gates? - "You did good, kid."

[cobblestonestreet]

Marilyn Monroe (looking a little bored) and Lee Strasberg at the Actor's Studio Benefit, Roseland Dance Hall, March 13, 1961

[kittenish-pulchritude]

Lee Strasberg & Marilyn Monroe

at The Actor's Studio Benefit

March 13, 1961

[cobblestonestreet]

Marilyn Monroe at the Actor's Studio Benefit held at Manhattan's Roseland Ballroom, 1961.

[cobblestonestreet]

Marilyn Monroe at the Actors Studio, where she began studying method acting in 1955

[where-fading-princesses-live]

The Actors Studio 75th Birthday Party For Lee Strasberg - November 19, 1976

[thewolveswithin]

JL: “You could so easily have taken that path, and I'm sure you were offered role after role that requires certain male beauty, and you've deliberately taken another path.”

JD: “Some people call it ignorance!”

JL: “No … nobody in THIS room.”

JD: “I was so uncomfortable being a product and someone else's product, and I didn't … I couldn't stand it … it was claustrophobic, um, so I swore to myself that I wouldn't …. I would choose my own path and I wouldn't deviate in any way, and if I failed, I failed but I tried, and I figured I could always, you know, go back to, you know, playing guitar or pumping gas or something.”

Johnny Depp Inside the Actor’s Studio in 2002

[lacerumcor]

There's not a lot of stand-up tragedy--Good evening! Tonight, I shall suffer for your enjoyment. Before I disembowel myself and attempt to fuck my mother, I wish you all to know...

-Robin Williams (The Actor's Studio)