It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
JAMES DEANOnly the gentle are ever really strong.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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 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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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When 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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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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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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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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You’re tearing me apart!
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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