Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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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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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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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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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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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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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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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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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