When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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.
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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.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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