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.
JAMES DEANI 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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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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 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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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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My fun days are over.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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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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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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