And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
JAMES DEANRemember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
More James Dean Quotes
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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.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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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.
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My fun days are over.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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.
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What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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