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.
JAMES DEANMy fun days are over.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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 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 need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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