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
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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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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