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 DEANYou 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.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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It’s never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around.
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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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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
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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.
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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