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.
JAMES DEANTo me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are 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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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