But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEANBeing a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
More James Dean Quotes
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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