There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEANWhen 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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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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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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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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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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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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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.
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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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