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.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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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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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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 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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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