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 DEANWhen an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
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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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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
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I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
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Racing is the only time I feel whole.
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I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I’m unable to love anyone tangible
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My fun days are over.
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What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
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I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.
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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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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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I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
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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.
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Nowadays, he lives in a world we don’t understand too well, the actor’s world. We don’t see too much of him. But he’s a good boy, my Jim.
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