James Dean

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I'm a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don't see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn't tolerate myself.

You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

The thing about Paris, it's a great city for wandering around and buying shoes and nursing a cafe au lait for hours on end and pretending you're Baudelaire. But it's not a city where you can work.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.