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.
JAMES DEANIn the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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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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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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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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If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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