My fun days are over.
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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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.
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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