I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
JAMES DEANI’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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