One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEANI wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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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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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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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It’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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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 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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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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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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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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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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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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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