Since his breakout role in 'Call Me By Your Name,'…

The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.

— Bill Hader

So today if you see a person who looks like your teenage fantasy walking down the street, it's probably not your fantasy, but someone…

— Andy Warhol

It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be…

— Terence Stamp

“Life isn’t so bad. I’m not fat (unless you’re Gandhi), I’m not short (unless you’re Goliath), and I’m not ugly (unless you’re James Dean).”

— Jarod Kintz

“A sweeping vista of Northern sky opens up between the warehouses and hangs motionless above the cobbled streets. It’s a world of unrequited love…

— Neil Schiller

Where's our Paul Newmans? Where's our Robert Redfords? We've got Jason Statham, who is great... blue collar and cool, which is fantastic. And we've…

— Ricky Gervais

“The Adoption When Paul Jobs was mustered out of the Coast Guard after World War II, he made a wager with his crewmates. They…

— Walter Isaacson

I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The Last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.

— Matt Bomer

There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with…

— Ed Speleers

To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those…

— Patrick Swayze

I went and got a tattoo of James Dean on my shoulder without actually seeing him in any movies.

— Sergei Polunin

“Nineteenth-century preacher Henry Ward Beecher's last words were "Now comes the mystery." The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as…

— John Green

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a…

— John Travolta

It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.

— Humphrey Bogart

Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

— Michael Cunningham