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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.

James Dean

I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
JAMES DEAN

Demand Kid Parent Picture Psychological Thinking
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.
JAMES DEAN

Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

Dance Dream Forever Love Meant Today
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.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Alone Being Concentration Imagination Loneliness Thing
What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
JAMES DEAN

Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEAN

Able Contribute Day Feeling might One Something World
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
You’re tearing me apart!
JAMES DEAN

Apart Emotion Feeling Training
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Being Concentration Imagination Loneliest Thing World
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEAN

Fast Good Live Looking Young
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEAN

Artistic Battery Hour Learning Master Recharge Two
Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
JAMES DEAN

Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
JAMES DEAN

Feel Only Racing Time Whole

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