James Dean Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

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

  James Dean

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Only the gentle are ever really strong.

  James Dean

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  James Dean

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Imagination

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Following Instructions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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

  Order, Feet, Acting

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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.

  James Dean

  People, Acting, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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. So the director's task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons.

  James Dean

  Following Instructions, Order, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• How can you measure acting in inches?

  James Dean

  Acting, Inches

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. 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. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

  James Dean

  Children, School, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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