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The only greatness for man is immortality.

James Dean

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.
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Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one’s watching, Love as if it’s all you know, Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you’ll die today
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Dance Forever Knew Live Love Meant Today Watching
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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Anyone Challenge Day However Painting Pull Studio Through
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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Child Children Function Involved School Theatrical Thinking
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something
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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Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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Boy Make Mark Mind Mine Remember
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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Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance
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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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
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.
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Absolutely Ago Ancient Author Classic Foreign Heart Long Musician Painter People Philospher
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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Experience Learn Lifetime Possible Short Span State
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.
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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
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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Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Gentle Inspirational Life Motivational Strong
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Change Dream Forever Life Positive Today

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