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 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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.
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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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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