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James Dean

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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Animal Character Chicken Cow Develop Learn Pig Studying
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
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
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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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
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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Devil Gauche Little Minded People Serious Tene Terrible
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Fast Good Live Looking Young
One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Able Contribute Day Feeling might One Something World
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
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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Discovery Existence Prime Reason Thinking World
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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Adequate Art Book Force Idea Knowledge Satanic
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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Experience Learn Lifetime Possible Short Span State
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
Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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Boy Make Mark Mind Mine Remember
If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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Ashamed Confused Day Everything Feel One
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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Afraid Everything Goal Mark Ultimate Worthwhile
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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Artistic Battery Hour Learning Master Recharge Two

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