James Lipton credited as playing...
Self - Host • Self
- [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.
- 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?
- [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".
- [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!
- James Lipton: I believe you're a man who believes in revenge.
- Harry Shearer: [as Montgomery Burns] Yes! Hence the hounds.
- 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.
- James Lipton: [Repeated question to guests that have experience in stand up comedy] can comedy be taught or is it genetic?
- James Lipton: [Repeated line to actors after they've worked with him] What's the Jack Nicholson experience like?
- James Lipton: [to guests that are actors and stand up comedians] can comedy be taught or is it genetic?
- James Lipton: [Repeated line to actors after they've worked with him] What's the John Hughes experience like?