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
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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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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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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
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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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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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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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I can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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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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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
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I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
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My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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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 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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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Am I in love? Absolutely. I’m in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I’m a passionate lover.
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