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.
JAMES DEANIt was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
More James Dean Quotes
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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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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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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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’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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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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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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The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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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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