James Dean Quotes

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  • 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. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.

  • 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.

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  • I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.

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  • You're tearing me apart!

    "Fictional character: Jim Stark". "Rebel Without a Cause", www.imdb.com. October 26, 1955.
  • Remember: Life is short, break the rules

  • There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. 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.

    Water   Choices   Swim  
  • The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

  • I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

    Appreciate   World   Able  
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  • If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

    "Fictional character: Jim Stark". "Rebel Without a Cause", www.imdb.com. October 26, 1955.
  • 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. The clouds are lined with silver and the glass is half full (though the answers won't be found at the bottom) Don't sweat the small stuff, 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

  • 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.

    Goal   Worthwhile   Mark  
  • How can you measure acting in inches?

    Acting   Inches  
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  • I don't have to explain anything to anybody.

  • Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

  • An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

    Order   Feet   Acting  
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  • An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. 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. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.

    Art   Expression   Order  
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  • I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

    Want   Hours   Texan  
  • I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.

  • What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!

    Way   Glory   Clean  
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  • The only greatness for man is immortality.

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  • Racing is the only time I feel whole.

    Racing   Feels   Whole  
  • 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. 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. 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, one of these days I might be able to contribute something to the world.

    School   People   House  
  • I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film

  • 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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  • 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.

    People   Acting   Needs  
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  • If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

    "Elvis Presley 'Live' Like You've Never Seen Him! With holographic technology, that could become a strange reality" by Jo Piazza, www.foxnews.com. April 18, 2012.
  • An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

  • But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

    Kids   Trying   Idyllic  
  • Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.

    Car   May   Driving  
  • I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

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