How can you measure acting in inches?
JAMES DEANThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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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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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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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 can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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