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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.

James Dean

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
JAMES DEAN

Accept Acting Experience Feet Interpret Offer Orde Order Willing
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Being Done Easy Good Harder Man
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

Conditioning Crook Great Impaled Truly Way World
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
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.
JAMES DEAN

Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
JAMES DEAN

Charm Doe Hankering Include Life Purpose Society
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.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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?
JAMES DEAN

Ashamed Confused Day Everything Feel One
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Alone Being Concentration Imagination Loneliness Thing
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Being Concentration Imagination Loneliest Thing World
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEAN

Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something
I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
JAMES DEAN

Bond Idealistic Lover Metaphysical Physical Relationship Sacrifice Ultimate
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.
JAMES DEAN

Afraid Everything Goal Mark Ultimate Worthwhile
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.
JAMES DEAN

Child Children Function Involved School Theatrical Thinking
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.
JAMES DEAN

Acting Great Logical Manifest Need Neurise People Themselves Way
I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
JAMES DEAN

Around Feel Like Me Myself Protect
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.
JAMES DEAN

Adequate Art Book Force Idea Knowledge Satanic
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.
JAMES DEAN

Devil Gauche Little Minded People Serious Tene Terrible
I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
JAMES DEAN

Believe Cause Firmly Picture Rebel Trust
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEAN

Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
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 DEAN

Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actors Both Done Good Harder Man
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEAN

Accept Art Experience Expression Interpret Life Order Willing
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.
JAMES DEAN

Experience Learn Lifetime Possible Short Span State
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.
JAMES DEAN

Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
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
JAMES DEAN

Actor Belong Best Happen Keep Nothing Thing Youngest
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World

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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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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