I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
JAMES DEANBeing a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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A 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.
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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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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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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
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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 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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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 wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
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