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.
JAMES DEANAt 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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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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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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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