I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
JAMES DEANAm I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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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.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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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.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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My fun days are over.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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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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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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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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