Top 26 Quotes by James Dean

I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

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

Racing is the only time I feel whole.

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

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.

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

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

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.

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.