You’re tearing me apart!
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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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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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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My fun days are over.
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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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