Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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.
More James Dean Quotes
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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