I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
JAMES DEANReality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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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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