You’re tearing me apart!
JAMES DEANThe 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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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