Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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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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