The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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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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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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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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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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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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