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.
JAMES DEANWhat 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.
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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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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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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 have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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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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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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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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