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.
JAMES DEANWhen 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.
JAMES DEANI fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
JAMES DEANIn fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEANA good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEANI don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
JAMES DEANOn these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
JAMES DEANYou need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEANYou 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 DEANOnly the gentle are ever really strong.
JAMES DEANTo me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
JAMES DEANWhat better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEANThe only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEANI have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEANHe 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.
JAMES DEAN