My fun days are over.
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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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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.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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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.
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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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On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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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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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 can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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