1. James Dean
James Byron Dean was a two-time Oscar-nominated American film actor. Dean's status as a cultural icon is best embodied in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause, in which he starred as troubled stereotypical high school rebel more..

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James Dean:I don't even want to be just the best. I want to grow so tall that nobody can reach me. #Teams and Teamwork

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#Love

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James Dean:Only the gentle are ever really strong. #Leaders and Leadership

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James Dean: Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow. #Dreams

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James Dean:I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery. #Reason

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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. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art. #Acting and Actors

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#Cinema

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James Dean:Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated. You must say, 'Wait. Let me see.' And above all, you must be honest with yourself. #Belief

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James Dean:Most of all I like to mold and create things. #Environment

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James Dean:Gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. #Happiness

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#Courage

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James Dean:It was an accident, although I’ve been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child–in school, music, athletics. 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. To my way of thinking, an actor’s course is set even before he’s out of the cradle. #Music

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#Men

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James Dean: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. #Loneliness

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James Dean:My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society. #Sex

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James Dean: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 also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed. #Hockey

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James Dean: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. #Appearance

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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. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over. And he must be allowed the space, the freedom to express himself in the role. Without that space, an actor is no more than an unthinking robot with a chest-full of push-buttons. #Acting and Actors

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#Uniforms

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