What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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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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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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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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