In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEANOnly the gentle are ever really strong.
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 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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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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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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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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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My fun days are over.
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