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Ellen:
Was everything a joke to you? Larry Lapinsky:
Not everything. Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach:
See, you're joking right now, right? Larry Lapinsky:
What do you want me to say? Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach:
Joking is what's doing you in. Joking is the American actor's disease. It's the American person's disease. Because what you're doing is you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you. The worst kind of joking you can do is keep life out. Commenting, editorializing, joking - terrible! Don't do it. It's fatal
Was everything a joke to you? Larry Lapinsky:
Not everything. Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach:
See, you're joking right now, right? Larry Lapinsky:
What do you want me to say? Herbert Berghof - Acting Coach:
Joking is what's doing you in. Joking is the American actor's disease. It's the American person's disease. Because what you're doing is you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you. The worst kind of joking you can do is keep life out. Commenting, editorializing, joking - terrible! Don't do it. It's fatal
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Is everything a joke to you Not everything
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See you're joking right now right What do you want me to say
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Joking is what's doing you in
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Joking is the American actor's disease
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It's the American person's disease
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Because what you're doing is
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you're keeping reality out so that it won't touch you
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The worst kind of joking you can do is to keep life out
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Commenting editorializing joking
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Terrible Don't do it It's fatal
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Movie Summary
The ups and downs of life as experienced by a group of aspiring young artists in the early Fifties New York.
