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.
JAMES DEANLive fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
More James Dean Quotes
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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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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He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.
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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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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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 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.
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A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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