When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEANParents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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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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To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
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Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
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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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Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
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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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Only the gentle are ever really strong.
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Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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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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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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To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
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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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Remember: Life is short, break the rules (they were made to be broken) Forgive quickly, kiss slowly Love truly, laugh uncontrollably And never regret anything that makes you smile.
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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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Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
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