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.
JAMES DEANAn 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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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Mind you, my boy will make his mark.
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The greatest school of the theater. It houses great people like Marlon Brando, Julie Harris, Arthur Kennedy, Mildred DunnockVery few get into it, and it is absolutely free.
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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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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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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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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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I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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