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Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.

James Dean

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.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
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Believe Cause Firmly Picture Rebel Trust
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
JAMES DEAN

Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer.
JAMES DEAN

Accept Acting Experience Feet Interpret Offer Orde Order Willing
I think the one thing this picture shows that’s new is the psychological disproportion of the kids’ demands on the parents.
JAMES DEAN

Demand Kid Parent Picture Psychological Thinking
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.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
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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Acting Logical Manifest Need Neurose People Way
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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Dance Forever Knew Live Love Meant Today Watching
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 DEAN

Dance Dream Forever Love Meant Today
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
JAMES DEAN

Artistic Battery Hour Learning Master Recharge Two
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.
JAMES DEAN

Afraid Everything Goal Mark Ultimate Worthwhile
In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
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Experience Learn Lifetime Possible Short Span State
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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Conditioning Crook Great Impaled Truly Way World
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.
JAMES DEAN

Feet Lesson Life More Put Remember Seek

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