But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEANIt’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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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.
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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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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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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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.
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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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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.
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A 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.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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