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.
JAMES DEANIn fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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.
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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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