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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.

James Dean

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
JAMES DEAN

Boy Make Mark Mind Mine Remember
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.
JAMES DEAN

Broken Dream Forgive Laugh Life Quickly Regret Remember Short
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.
JAMES DEAN

Animal Character Chicken Cow Develop Learn Pig Studying
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Feel Only Racing Time Whole
Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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Car Driving Easy May Mine Save
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEAN

Blaze Clean Die Fast Glory Way
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.
JAMES DEAN

Adequate Art Book Force Idea Knowledge Satanic
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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Great Greatest House People Popular School Theatre
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
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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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEAN

Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking
I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
JAMES DEAN

Around Feel Like Me Myself Protect
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
JAMES DEAN

Accept Acting Experience Feet Interpret Offer Orde Order Willing

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