Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEANBeing 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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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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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 don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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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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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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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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