An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEANI’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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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You are who you are meant to be, Dance as if no one’s watching, Love as if it’s all you know, Dream as if you’ll live forever, Live as if you’ll die today
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a 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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My fun days are over.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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