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.
JAMES DEANTo me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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