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.
JAMES DEANAn hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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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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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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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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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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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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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My fun days are over.
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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.
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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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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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How can you measure acting in inches?
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