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.
JAMES DEANTake it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one’s watching, Love as if it’s all you know, Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you’ll die today
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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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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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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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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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My fun days are over.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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