You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
JAMES DEANLive fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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