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 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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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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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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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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 purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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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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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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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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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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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