The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEANYou’re tearing me apart!
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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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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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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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.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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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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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
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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 firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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