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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

I’m not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
JAMES DEAN

Arm Behind Behind Back Going Tied
The only greatness for man is immortality.
JAMES DEAN

Greatness Identity Immortality Man Only Proof
Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette.
JAMES DEAN

Cigarette Drinking Idea Learn Preconceived Reality Smoke Smoking
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.
JAMES DEAN

Choice Conditioning Crook Fish Great Impaled Swim Truly Water
It is the best thing that can happen to an actor. I am one of the youngest to belong. If I can keep this up and nothing interferes with my progress
JAMES DEAN

Actor Belong Best Happen Keep Nothing Thing Youngest
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Dedication Duty Express Imagination Interpret Man Problem Significance
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.
JAMES DEAN

Allowed Button Express Freedom Push Robot Role Space Unthinking
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
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

Change Dream Forever Life Positive Today
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
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.
JAMES DEAN

Great Greatest House People Popular School Theatre
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
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
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.
JAMES DEAN

Dark Film Inside Light Open Tear Test Work
It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child – in school, music, athletics.
JAMES DEAN

Child Children Function Involved School Theatrical Thinking
Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

As Die Dream Forever Live Today You

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