Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
JAMES DEANI think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
More James Dean Quotes
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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 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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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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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A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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