My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
JAMES DEANHe 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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