My fun days are over.
JAMES DEANAnyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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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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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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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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