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.
More James Dean Quotes
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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