If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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My fun days are over.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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 actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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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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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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