A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
JAMES DEANYou 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
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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My fun days are over.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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 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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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