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"I was convinced there as only one actor to play Templeton the Rat, and that was Tony Randall."
"Being unemployed is not good for an actor. No, it isn't, no matter how unsuccessful you are. Because you always remember getting fired from all the restaurants. You remember that stuff very, very strongly."
"I decided to become an actor because I was failing in school and I needed the credits."
"I trained as a theater actor and you had a bare stage and you had to pretend, one prop and you are in the middle of 8th Ave. and traffic is just going by."
"We have the best driver in the world in drifting and best guy in rally racing and stuff like that. So obviously there's a lot of stuff that I didn't do, but there's a lot of really incredible things that I don't think we've ever seen an actor do."
"An actor is never so great as when he reminds you of an animal - falling like a cat, lying like a dog, moving like a fox."
Explore more quotes by James Dean
"Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done."
"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."
"Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated."
"To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication."
"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."
"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."
"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
"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, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet."
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