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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.

James Dean

The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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Great Greatest House People Popular School Theatre
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Break Life Regret Remember Rule Short
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
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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Actor Being Concentration Imagination Loneliest Thing World
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Choice Conditioning Crook Fish Great Impaled Swim Truly Water
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Conditioning Crook Great Impaled Truly Way World
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Adequate Fair Knowledge Satanic
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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Anyone Challenge Day However Painting Pull Studio Through
I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Around Feel Like Me Myself Protect
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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Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance
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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Anyone Fawn Herat People Soul Tangible Trouble Unable
I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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Announce Auditing Craft House Member People Proud School Stride
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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Acting Logical Manifest Need Neurose People Way
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
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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Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
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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Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
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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Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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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Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
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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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Destroy Film Light Performance Tell
What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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Blaze Clean Die Fast Glory Way
In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Feet Lesson Life More Put Remember Seek
You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one’s watching, Love as if it’s all you know, Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you’ll die today
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Dance Forever Knew Live Love Meant Today Watching
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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Allow Belief Consideration Opinionated Prime Trust Two Yourself
How can you measure acting in inches?
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Acting Inch Measure
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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Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Charm Doe Hankering Include Life Purpose Society

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