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.
JAMES DEANBeing 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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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 also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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