The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEANThe gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
More James Dean Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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My fun days are over.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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