James Dean

“I am trying to find the courage to be tender in my life. I know violence is weakness. Only the gentle are ever really strong.”

“Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today.”

“I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film”

“Racing is the only time I feel whole.”

“No pretendo ser el mejor. Únicamente quiero volar tan alto que nadie pueda alcanzarme. No para demostrar nada, sólo quiero llegar a donde se llega cuando entregas tu vida entera y todo lo que eres a una única cosa.”

“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”

“Vis-à-vis vom Club >Leon&Eddis< ... Der reinste Wahnsinn! Ich vernehme in der Tiefe der Nacht das monotone Schlagen der Tamburins, sinnlich und suggestiv, tätowierte Körper und Visionen von Orgien spuken mir im Hirn. Geruch nach Gin und Bier für neunzig Cent, ich fühle eine schmerzhafte Starre in mir. Ich höre, wie das Publikum tobt und einer Tänzerin zujubelt, die es mit ihren aufreizenden lasziven Bewegungen in ihren Bann zieht.. Schweiß rinnt überall an ihr herunter und die schicke Gesellschaft in den ersten Reihen lässt sich keinen Tropfen davon entgehen. Der Gipfel des Widerwärtigen. Es ist halb sieben Uhr früh... Die zweite Schublade von unten, zu meiner Linken, birgt eine Kollektion suggestiver Bilder. Zeichnungen und Fotos. Das ist meine Comedia Divida... Ich würde dir gerne von schöneren Dingen erzählen. Aber man muss die Realität ohne Illusion sehen, nicht? Alles, was ich hier geschrieben habe, ist wahr. Es ist schwierig für mich. Ich fühle mich allein. Entschuldige. Ich fühle mich allein.”

“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.”

“Take it easy driving– the life you save may be mine.”

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”

“Only the gentle are ever really strong.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You're tearing me apart!”

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

“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”

“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.”

“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. ”