Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
JAMES DEANThe 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
More James Dean Quotes
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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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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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Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
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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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An 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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I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
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I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.
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You’re tearing me apart!
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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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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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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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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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A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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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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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’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
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One of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.
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Remember: Life is short, break the rules
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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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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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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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I wouldn’t like me, if I had to be around me.
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A good boy, and I’m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He’s not easy to understand. But he’s all man, and he’ll make his mark.
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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