Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANHow can you measure acting in inches?
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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.
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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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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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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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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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