The only greatness for man is immortality.
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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A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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