James Dean (film) Quotes

“I'm playing the drums! Go to hell!”

“Too fast to live. Too young to die.”

“The stars that burn brightest burn quickest.”

“I don't want to be just good. I want to be great.”

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“I'm not even interested in this glitzy glamour crap! All right! If you wanna wear monkey suits! That's fine! Not me!”

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“[to Pier Angeli] Tell Vic Damone and your crazy mother, to stay out of our lives!”

“[voice over, opening lines] My mother made me promise to be an artist. She taught me that imagination can take a person anywhere. Mine took me from Indiana, to Broadway, to Hollywood. She was right.”

“[to director George Stevens] You know, you keep me waiting hours preparing for some scene. You never even get around to shooting. So I ain't working today. And you do it again, I'm gonna take two days, and then three.”

“[to Julie Harris, after the filming for East of Eden is finished] It's over. You know, this- this is like my family, and... I can't just let that go.”

“[voice over] I decided to move to New York. Every actor I cared about, Brando, Clift, even Whitmore, all worked in New York. New York was big and lonely. I loved it. Being a struggling actor in New York in the 1950s was the best, it was the right place at the right time. Stop worrying about my mother and father for a while. I was dead broke, didn't matter, cause I was home.”