James Dean

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

James Dean

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

James Dean

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.

James Dean

Remember: Life is short, break the rules.

James Dean

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.

James Dean

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

James Dean

An actor must interpret life and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life has to offer. In fact he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.

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.

James Dean

An actor should be judged by his performance only.

James Dean

An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.

James Dean