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 DEANAn hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
More James Dean Quotes
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
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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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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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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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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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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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I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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