One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEAN
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.
More James Dean Quotes
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one’s watching, Love as if it’s all you know, Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you’ll die today
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You’re tearing me apart!
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What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
JAMES DEAN