If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
JAMES DEANTake it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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You’re tearing me apart!
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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