Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
More James Dean Quotes
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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You’re tearing me apart!
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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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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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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My fun days are over.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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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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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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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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