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.
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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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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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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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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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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I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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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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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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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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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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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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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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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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