If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEANHow can you measure acting in inches?
More James Dean Quotes
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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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And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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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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