Remember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEANYou need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
More James Dean Quotes
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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