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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

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

Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Being Done Easy Good Harder Man
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Gentle Inspirational Life Motivational Strong
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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Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
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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Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Feel Only Racing Time Whole
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 DEAN

Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
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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Away Core Effort Everything Store Subconscious Superhuman
In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Feet Lesson Life More Put Remember Seek
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Change Dream Forever Life Positive Today
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Accept Art Experience Expression Interpret Life Order Willing
I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Destroy Film Light Performance Tell
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 DEAN

Dance Dream Forever Love Meant Today
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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Actor Alone Being Concentration Imagination Loneliness Thing
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance

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