You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
JAMES DEANI 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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