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When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.

James Dean

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.
JAMES DEAN

Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEAN

Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something
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.
JAMES DEAN

Biy Easy Good Man Mark Not Proud Understand
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
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As Die Dream Forever Live Today You
What do we need all that for?”If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.
JAMES DEAN

Believe Motivated Need Picture Psychologically Relationship Thinking Truth
I have made great strides in my craft. After months of auditioning, I am very proud to announce that I am a member of the Actors Studio.
JAMES DEAN

Announce Auditing Craft House Member People Proud School Stride
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
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
JAMES DEAN

Fast Good Live Looking Young
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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Anyone Challenge Day However Painting Pull Studio Through
To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Before Course Cradle Neurosis Set Thinking
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.
JAMES DEAN

Boy Know Man Mother Old Stumbling Tried
I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
JAMES DEAN

Believe Cause Firmly Picture Rebel Trust
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
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Coem Delayed Doing Gratification Result
Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn’t hiss or boo me.
JAMES DEAN

Animal Character Chicken Cow Develop Learn Pig Studying
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’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
JAMES DEAN

Devil Gauche Little Minded People Serious Tene Terrible

When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.

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