How can you measure acting in inches?
JAMES DEANIn 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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.
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My fun days are over.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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.
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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 think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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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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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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