I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
JAMES DEANI’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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?
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My fun days are over.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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