If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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.
More James Dean Quotes
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What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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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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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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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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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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