At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

— James Dean

James Dean Quotes

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.

— James Dean

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

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

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

— James Dean

My fun days are over.

— James Dean

Fun

What better way to die? It’s fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory.

— James Dean

Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.

— James Dean

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.

— James Dean

I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.

— James Dean

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

— James Dean

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

— James Dean

How can you measure acting in inches?!?

— James Dean

You’re tearing me apart!

— James Dean

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.

— James Dean

I don’t have to explain anything to anybody.

— James Dean

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.

— James Dean

An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

— James Dean

Reality doesn’t have any preconceived ideas. You’ve got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.

— James Dean

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don’t care if people like them are complete liars.

— James Dean Bradfield

I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.

— James Dean Bradfield

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