At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
JAMES DEANLive fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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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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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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My fun days are over.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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