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
JAMES DEANWhatever’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.
More James Dean Quotes
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You’re tearing me apart!
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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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In 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.
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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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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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