Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEANDream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
More James Dean Quotes
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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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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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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.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he’s dead, then maybe he was a great man.
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If I had one day when I didn’t have to be all confused and didn’t have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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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.
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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
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He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.
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