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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.

James Dean

My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
JAMES DEAN

Charm Doe Hankering Include Life Purpose Society
You’re tearing me apart!
JAMES DEAN

Apart Emotion Feeling Training
I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
JAMES DEAN

Demand Kid Parent Picture Psychological Thinking
To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Course Cradle Neurosis Set Thinking
But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
JAMES DEAN

Behaviour Idyllic Kid Picture Show Trying
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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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
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 DEAN

Contribute Interfere might Nothing Progress World
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?
JAMES DEAN

Ashamed Confused Day Everything Feel One
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEAN

Artistic Battery Hour Learning Master Recharge Two
On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
JAMES DEAN

Anyone Challenge Day However Painting Pull Studio Through
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
JAMES DEAN

Country Day Four Hour Texan Twenty Want Wish
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.
JAMES DEAN

Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
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.
JAMES DEAN

Between Bridge Death Gap Great Life Live Man
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.
JAMES DEAN

Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
JAMES DEAN

Anyone Fawn Herat People Soul Tangible Trouble Unable
Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
JAMES DEAN

Fault Kid Often Parent Work

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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