An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEANYou’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
More James Dean Quotes
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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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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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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