My fun days are over.
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 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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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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The only greatness for man is immortality.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEAN






