An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEANI don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
More James Dean Quotes
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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My fun days are 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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Whatever’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.
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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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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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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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