Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
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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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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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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.
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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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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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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
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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