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.
JAMES DEANWhatever’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.
More James Dean Quotes
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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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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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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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.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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.
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What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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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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