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.
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.
More James Dean Quotes
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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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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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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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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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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.
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