At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
JAMES DEANI have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
More James Dean Quotes
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The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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You’ve got to show what it’s really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.
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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 can’t let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
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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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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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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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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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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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How can you measure acting in inches?
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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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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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