Top 100 Quotes About James Dean
#1. Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.
John Lennon
#2. He leans against the doorframe. Some guys are born to lean. He's definitely one of them. James Dean was another.
Jandy Nelson
#3. I knew by heart all the dialogue of James Dean's films; I could watch Rebel Without a Cause a hundred times over.
Elvis Presley
#4. Music and fashion have had a kind of incestuous relationship since the Fifties. It started with people like Elvis Presley and pop icons like James Dean. Then it exploded in the MTV days. Now, with the Internet, it's instantaneous.
John Varvatos
#5. I mean it's like trying to decide between James Dean and Elvis. Seriously, who could make that choice?
Andrea Portes
#6. I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc.
Tommy Wiseau
#7. Every Betrayal begins with trust-Phish
Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today-James Dean
Laugh as much as you breathe and love as long as you live-Anonymous
Brian Jacques
#8. I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.
Dane DeHaan
#9. To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.
Patrick Swayze
#10. I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.
Ville Valo
#11. I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like.
Elvis Presley
#12. I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Rupert Graves
#13. It's a good thing [James] Dean died when he did. If he'd lived, he'd never have been able to live up to the publicity.
Humphrey Bogart
#14. I wish James Dean would never have died. Then he'd be fat and acting on 'Dynasty' or something. There wouldn't be this whiny-boy act that's so prevalent everywhere.
Jane Leeves
#15. James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers.
Emile Hirsch
#16. It wasn't until I saw James Dean that I began to think that maybe I could actually do this. Movies didn't have to be just this fantasy with this impossibly handsome guy.
Terence Stamp
#17. James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why,
Montgomery Clift
#18. Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean.
Glenn Frey
#19. The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic.
Bill Hader
#20. I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.
Sebastian Stan
#21. I wasn't a babe in the woods. I'd watched a lot of stars, from James Dean to Brando, and I'd seen everybody alive work at MGM. I had a certain old-timer's quality, even though I was young and new, and drew on what I believed before I made it.
Jack Nicholson
#22. I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon.
John Travolta
#23. I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.
Jim Carrey
#24. James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time.
Andy Warhol
#25. Jim Dean and Elvis were the spokesmen for an entire generation. When I was in acting school in New York, years ago, there was a saying that if Marlon Brando changed the way people acted, then James Dean changed the way people lived. He was the greatest actor who ever lived. He was simply a genius.
Martin Sheen
#26. Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow
#27. Best advice was from a man by the name of James Dean. "Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today". I read that my senior year in high school and have never stopped since.
Kelly Blatz
#28. I've never
stopped wanting to cross
the equator, or touch an elk's
horns, or sing Tosca or screw
James Dean in a field of wheat.
To hell with wisdom. They're all wrong:
I'll never be through with my life.
Rita Dove
#29. I got into film acting because I wanted to be James Dean. We lost him at a very young age - he was only 24 - but I'm in my fifthies, so there's only so many times you can act like James Dean. I had to find new ways of expressing myself that kept me fascinated with film performance.
Nicolas Cage
#30. Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
Michael Cunningham
#31. I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.
Gwen Stefani
#32. I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
Tom Folsom
#33. I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.
Matt Bomer
#34. ... there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.
Martin Sheen
#35. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
#36. Maybe he used a bit too much hair spray, but the James Dean coif flattered him.
Jamie McGuire
#37. I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?
Dane DeHaan
#38. There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
Dane DeHaan
#39. I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
Ansel Elgort
#40. I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
David Bowie
#41. It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.
Michael Cunningham
#42. Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.
Robert Pattinson
#43. Actually, the person I related to was James Dean. I grew up with the Dean thing. Rebel Without A Cause had a very powerful effect on me.
Al Pacino
#44. When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean.
William Forsythe
#45. Something about his mud-encrusted boots and the way he let smoke curl from his lips and how the sinking sun lit his green hair reminded me of a punk, redneck James Dean.
Ransom Riggs
#46. What must it be like to be all James Dean and Steve McQueen in your leather and denim? Not giving a damn about anything?
Lauren Gilley
#47. I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")
Barbara Crooker
#48. I'd say James Dean is someone that's really inspired me. Just the fact that he did only three movies before he died at such a young age, and yet everyone knows who he is. It really blows my mind.
Tye Sheridan
#49. I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
Casper Van Dien
#51. Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Dean Koontz
#52. I'd missed science and what it was all about because I was too busy trying to think of other things, when I was at school. I was too busy trying to be James Dean.
Dallas Campbell
#53. Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated
the James Dean of the undead.
James Wolcott
#54. I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him.
Ranbir Kapoor
#55. When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
Boris Becker
#56. My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean.
Larry Bishop
#57. The only greatness for man is immortality.
James Dean
#58. I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
James Dean
#60. My dad used to put me in front of the TV screen and made me watch old Jimmy Durante and Dean Martin movies. I just always loved entertainment.
James Wolk
#61. James Patterson, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, so far these are the best horror writers, but I will continue searching for other interesting horror and twisted writers even like James Wan.
Deyth Banger
#63. 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.
James Dean
#64. Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
James Dean
#65. this type of analysis combines the three target-situation analyses (use, linguistic, and learning) and the present-situation analysis to
James Dean Brown
#66. My purpose in life does not include a hankering to charm society.
James Dean
#67. What do we need all that for?If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good. I firmly believe Rebel Without A Cause is such a picture.
James Dean
#68. Racing is the only time I feel whole.
James Dean
#69. The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.
James Dean
#70. I wouldn't like me, if I had to be around me.
James Dean
#71. Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.
James Dean
#72. Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.
James Dean
#73. You can call me Agent Mickelson,' he told me with a smile. 'What about you? Is Max short for something? Maxine?'
'No, Dean. It's just Max.
James Patterson
#74. I want to be a Texan 24 hours a day.
James Dean
#75. I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world, is discovery.
James Dean
#76. 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.
James Dean
#77. Only another writer, someone who had worked his heart out on a good book which sold three thousand copies, could appreciate the thrill that overcame me one April morning in 1973 when Dean Rivers of our small college in Georgia appeared at my classroom door
James A. Michener
#78. I have a fairly adequate knowledge of Satanic forces.
James Dean
#79. At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
James Dean
#80. There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning. A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
James Dean
#81. Remember: Life is short, break the rules
James Dean
#82. Reality doesn't have any preconceived ideas. You've got to learn how to smoke the cigarette, not act smoking the cigarette. You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You've got to do things and not show them.
James Dean
#83. I became a completely dysfunctional, miserable person, completely uncommunicative and aggressive.
James Dean Bradfield
#84. I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death. I mean, if he can live on after he has died, then maybe he was a great man. To me the only success, the only greatness, is immortality.
James Dean
#85. I don't have to explain anything to anybody.
James Dean
#86. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably.
James Dean
#87. 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
#88. 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.
James Dean
#89. Only the gentle men are ever really strong
James Dean
#90. 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.
James Dean
#91. How can you measure acting in inches?!?
James Dean
#92. 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.
James Dean
#93. Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
James Dean Bradfield
#94. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.
James Dean
#95. I always watch Dean Martin's show ... just to see if he falls down.
James Stewart
#96. I'd rather have people hiss than yawn.
James Dean
#97. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.
James Dean
#98. Have you ever been to Colorado?"
I frowned. "Is that one of those square ones, in the middle?
James Patterson
#99. 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 then ...
James Dean
#100. I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
James Dean
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