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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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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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.
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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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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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