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" 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

Way

Acting

Actor

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" I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty. "

James Dean

Good

Always

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

" I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself. "

" 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. "

" You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball. "

" The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. "

" Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today. "

" 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. "

James Dean

Life

Fact

" Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle. "

James Dean

Before

Actor

" Only the gentle are ever really strong. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day. "

" Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. "