Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANI’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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.
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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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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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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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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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