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My fun days are over.
You're tearing me apart!
I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
Racing is the only time I feel whole.
How can you measure acting in inches?
Only the gentle are ever really strong.
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
The only greatness for man is immortality.
I don't have to explain anything to anybody.
I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.
An actor should be judged by his performance only.
Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.
I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
I'm not going to go through life with one arm tied behind my back.
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
What better way to die? It's fast and clean and you go out in a blaze of glory!
I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
The only way to make a scene realistic is to do it the way you know it would really happen.
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.
There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
Death can't be considered because, if you're afraid to die, there's no room in your life to make discoveries.
You try to be yourself, do only what you've always done and like to do, and right away, you're tagged as an oddball.
If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.
You can do 'Hamlet' while performing cartwheels... as long as the audience sees your eyes - you can make the performance real.
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.
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.
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.
Whatever’s inside making me what I am, it’s like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one's watching. Love as if it's all you know. Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a little, if you're so inclined.
If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?
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.
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.
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.
I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil – terribly gauche and so tense that I don’t see how people can stay in the same room as me. I know I couldn’t tolerate myself.
I don't want anything seventy-thirty. Fifty-fifty's always good enough for me. I don't want to have to give anybody seventy; I don't want anybody to give me seventy. I want fifty.
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.
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.