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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

James Dean

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
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.
JAMES DEAN

Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEAN

Blaze Clean Die Fast Glory Way
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
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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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Charm Doe Hankering Include Life Purpose Society
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
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
My fun days are over.
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Day Feeling Fun Good Mine Over Picture
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance
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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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
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.
JAMES DEAN

Away Core Effort Everything Store Subconscious Superhuman
How can you measure acting in inches?
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Acting Inch Measure
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
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 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

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