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 DEANI’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
More James Dean Quotes
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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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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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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