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.
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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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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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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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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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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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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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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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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