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.
JAMES DEANRemember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
More James Dean Quotes
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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My fun days are over.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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