Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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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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Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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