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I like a lot of classic movies, like, for example, 'Citizen Kane', James Dean movies, etc, etc. -- Tommy Wiseau
James Dean was always a tortured soul. -- Ansel Elgort
Without a reunion, the Eagles are forever young, like James Dean. -- Glenn Frey
My biggest influences as an actor were Marlon Brando, and I really dug James Dean. -- Larry Bishop
I myself am a great James Dean fan. He had this aura and enigma about him. -- Ranbir Kapoor
When I grew into a teenager, I became obsessed with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff, and James Dean. -- William Forsythe
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet. -- Casper Van Dien
I'm a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day. -- Ville Valo
The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic. -- Bill Hader
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are so many great actors, but I really have a lot of respect for Johnny Depp. I've seen a lot of movies with him in it and, even if it's a film that wasn't as successful as you thought it would be, I've never seen him put in a bad performance. My favorite actors from history have to be Steve McQueen and James Dean. -- Ed Speleers
I read a quote by James Dean when I was 17; he said, 'I'd rather starve than do a whole bunch of work that I don't care about.' The older I got, the more I understood what he was saying. If I want to do a whole lot of work that I don't care about, then I would probably be working in a law office somewhere. -- Mehcad Brooks
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
The first piece of art that I ever bought-when I could afford it-was a Warhol sketch from the period when he was just getting out of doing commercial work and more into art. It's a sketch of a young guy's face. I guess the gallery that I bought it from thought I would like it because the young guy kind of looked like James Dean. -- James Franco
James Dean was the damaged but beautiful soul of our time. -- Andy Warhol
I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean. -- Jim Carrey
I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. -- Elvis Presley
Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed. -- Michael Cunningham
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
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
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
Theres 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I was someone who was out of control and not to be worked with. It was partly because method acting was a new thing in Hollywood then and Marlon Brando had gotten through and Montgomery Clift had gotten through and James Dean but beyond that there wasn't really anybody. -- Dennis Hopper
Watching the news inspires me to keep going and reminds me why I should never complain. I'm inspired by those who don't let others define them: Martin Luther King Jr., James Dean, Vincent Van Gogh, Hillary Clinton, Tennessee Williams, director Steve McQueen. They've all changed the conversation by making their voices heard. -- Robert Piper
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
Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead. -- James Wolcott
Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed. -- John Lennon
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

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