I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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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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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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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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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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