Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
More James Dean Quotes
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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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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A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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 firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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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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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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