When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEANBeing an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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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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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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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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