You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
JAMES DEANWhat better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
More James Dean Quotes
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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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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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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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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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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