If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEANIf I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
JAMES DEANWhen an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEANMy fun days are over.
JAMES DEANAn actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEANTo me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
JAMES DEANI firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
JAMES DEANThe 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.
JAMES DEANMind you, my boy will make his mark.
JAMES DEANIn fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEANIf 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.
JAMES DEANRemember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEANHe 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.
JAMES DEANA 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.
JAMES DEANI can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
JAMES DEANYou’re tearing me apart!
JAMES DEANWhat better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
JAMES DEAN