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.
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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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