James Dean Quotes
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 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.
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.
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.
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
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.
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?
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
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.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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.
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.
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.
I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
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.
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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.
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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.
I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.
It's quite a mistake to think that music fans don't work on major record companies. Sometimes, you know, you do find some good people on corporates, among all the infidels.
I'm always very interested in playing in front of different kinds of audiences. It always affects the way you play.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty to interpret it his problem and to express it his dedication.
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.
