Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEANIf I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
More James Dean Quotes
-
-
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEAN -
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEAN -
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.
JAMES DEAN -
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEAN -
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN -
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN -
If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEAN -
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?
JAMES DEAN -
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 DEAN -
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.
JAMES DEAN -
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEAN -
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEAN -
In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEAN -
Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
JAMES DEAN -
I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
JAMES DEAN