How can you measure acting in inches?
JAMES DEANI 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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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.
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He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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