If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
JAMES DEANBeing a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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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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