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.
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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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 want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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My fun days are over.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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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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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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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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If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Being 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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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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