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.
JAMES DEANIt 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
More James Dean Quotes
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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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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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 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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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My fun days are over.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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