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 DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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