But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
More James Dean Quotes
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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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My fun days are over.
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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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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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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN