What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
JAMES DEANBeing 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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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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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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 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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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