There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEANThe gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
More James Dean Quotes
-
-
A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
JAMES DEAN -
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.
JAMES DEAN -
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEAN -
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 -
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN -
I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
JAMES DEAN -
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN -
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 -
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 -
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.
JAMES DEAN -
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN -
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN -
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
JAMES DEAN -
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.
JAMES DEAN -
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEAN