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.
JAMES DEANMy fun days are over.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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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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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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