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Acting Quotes by James Dean
- How can you measure acting in inches?!?
- 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,…
- Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
- Only the gentle are ever really strong.
- 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…
- 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 actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact,…
- 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…
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