Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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.
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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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. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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 have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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