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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

James Dean

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

Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Being Done Easy Good Harder Man
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
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.
JAMES DEAN

Away Core Effort Everything Store Subconscious Superhuman
A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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Behaviour Idyllic Kid Picture Show Trying
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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Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
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

Acting Great Logical Manifest Need Neurise People Themselves Way
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

Change Dream Forever Life Positive Today
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
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEAN

Blaze Clean Die Fast Glory Way
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

Choice Conditioning Crook Fish Great Impaled Swim Truly Water
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actors Both Done Good Harder Man
I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Destroy Film Light Performance Tell
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
JAMES DEAN

Able Appreciate Beauty Endowed Nature Now World

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