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.
JAMES DEANBeing 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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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