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.
JAMES DEANMind you, my boy will make his mark.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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 one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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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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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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Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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