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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.

James Dean

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
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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Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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Break Life Regret Remember Rule Short
Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
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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Accept Acting Experience Feet Interpret Offer Orde Order Willing
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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Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking
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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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
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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Absolutely Ago Ancient Author Classic Foreign Heart Long Musician Painter People Philospher
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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Acting Logical Manifest Need Neurose People Way
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.
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Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something
The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won’t be found at the bottom) Don’t sweat the small stuff
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Answer Bottom Cloud Glass Line Siver
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Change Dream Forever Life Positive Today
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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Dance Dream Forever Love Meant Today
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
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Animal Character Chicken Cow Develop Learn Pig Studying
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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Great Greatest House People Popular School Theatre

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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