I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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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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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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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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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
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