I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
JAMES DEANLive fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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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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My fun days are over.
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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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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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