I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
JAMES DEANI 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.
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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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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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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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