You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEANThe gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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.
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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.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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