An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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.
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A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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