Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEANIf 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?
More James Dean Quotes
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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