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 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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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My fun days are over.
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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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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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