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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

James Dean

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEAN

Artistic Battery Hour Learning Master Recharge Two
It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
JAMES DEAN

Child Children Function Involved School Theatrical Thinking
Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
JAMES DEAN

Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
JAMES DEAN

Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
JAMES DEAN

Animal Character Chicken Cow Develop Learn Pig Studying
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actors Both Done Good Harder Man
To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
JAMES DEAN

Acting Logical Manifest Need Neurose People Way
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
JAMES DEAN

Between Bridge Death Gap Great Life Live Man
Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEAN

Behaviour Idyllic Kid Picture Show Trying
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
JAMES DEAN

Bond Idealistic Lover Metaphysical Physical Relationship Sacrifice Ultimate
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEAN

Allow Belief Consideration Opinionated Prime Trust Two Yourself
A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
JAMES DEAN

Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
JAMES DEAN

Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried

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