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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.

James Dean

Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
JAMES DEAN

Absolutely Ago Ancient Author Classic Foreign Heart Long Musician Painter People Philospher
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
JAMES DEAN

Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Course Cradle Neurosis Set Thinking
But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEAN

Behaviour Idyllic Kid Picture Show Trying
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEAN

Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking
You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
JAMES DEAN

Ground Like Own Reach Really Show Try
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.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
JAMES DEAN

Adequate Fair Knowledge Satanic
A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
JAMES DEAN

Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
JAMES DEAN

Announce Auditing Craft House Member People Proud School Stride
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Alone Being Concentration Imagination Loneliness Thing
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.
JAMES DEAN

Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried
In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEAN

Feet Lesson Life More Put Remember Seek
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
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.
JAMES DEAN

Away Core Effort Everything Store Subconscious Superhuman

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