I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
JAMES DEANBeing a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
More James Dean Quotes
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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.
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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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My fun days are over.
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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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 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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