Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEANYou’re tearing me apart!
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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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 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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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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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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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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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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.
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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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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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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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