My fun days are over.
JAMES DEANStudying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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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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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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