On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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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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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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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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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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 can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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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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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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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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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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