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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

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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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
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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Demand Kid Parent Picture Psychological Thinking
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
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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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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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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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Around Feel Like Me Myself Protect
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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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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