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 DEANI fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
More James Dean Quotes
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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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 have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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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 can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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