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If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

James Dean

I didn’t know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother’s going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it.
JAMES DEAN

Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried
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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Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
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
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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Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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
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
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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Adequate Fair Knowledge Satanic
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEAN

Accept Art Experience Expression Interpret Life Order Willing
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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Anybody Anything Explain People Power Proof
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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Boy Good Like Live Nowadays Person Understand World
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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Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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Able Appreciate Beauty Endowed Nature Now World
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEAN

Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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Feel Only Racing Time Whole

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