Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEANI have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
More James Dean Quotes
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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