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.
JAMES DEANYou 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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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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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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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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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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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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