When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
More James Dean Quotes
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Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
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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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If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
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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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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.
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Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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