Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANThe gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
More James Dean Quotes
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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.
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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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.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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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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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.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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You’re tearing me apart!
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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