Remember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEANRemember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEANBeing a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANI also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
JAMES DEANBeing 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 DEANHe 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 DEANTo grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
JAMES DEANIf 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?
JAMES DEANBut you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEANRacing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEANTo me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
JAMES DEANI don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
JAMES DEANYou’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
JAMES DEANTake it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEANLive fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEAN