James Dean
James Dean
James Byron Deanwas an American actor. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark. The other two roles that defined his stardom were loner Cal Trask in East of Edenand surly ranch hand Jett Rink in Giant...
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth8 February 1931
CityMarion, IN
loneliness being-alone imagination
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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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.
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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.
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My fun days are over.
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An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
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An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
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Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
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How can you measure acting in inches?!?
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I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.