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.
JAMES DEAN
JAMES DEAN
James Dean on acting
James Dean80 quotes“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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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James DeanJames Dean You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
James DeanJames Dean 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 DeanJames Dean Racing is the only time I feel whole.
James DeanJames Dean In 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.
James DeanJames Dean What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
James DeanJames Dean There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James DeanJames Dean 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.
James DeanJames Dean Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
James DeanJames Dean 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.
James DeanJames Dean A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
James DeanJames Dean You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
James DeanJames Dean I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
James DeanJames Dean I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
James DeanJames Dean 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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Adrien BrodyAdrien Brody So perhaps we always are acting, in a sense. But you meet someone you feel you admire or you “know,” and it’ll be different for that reason.
Adrien BrodyAdrien Brody I wanted people who are though of for their acting and not their gymnastic abilities or their muscles.
Adrianne PalickiAdrianne Palicki Each man has some part to play.
Adelaide Anne ProcterAdelaide Anne Procter The reason why I found acting is because my father passed away.
Adepero OduyeAdepero Oduye Someone who is a retired judge or an acting judge willing to step down from their judgeship, someone ideally who has prosecutorial experience, but someone who could come in and give credibility to the Russia investigation that is severely in jeopardy.
Adam SchiffAdam Schiff And their many causes still acting on the surface of our globe with undiminished power, which are changing, and will continue to change it, as long as it shall last.
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