James Dean Quotes

I never thought I could learn much from a dog or cat. They sleep when we sleep. They eat when we eat. I'm into observing animals being as wild as they can be in a captive environment.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

I was always interested in animals, but when I was little, animal behavior was still a new science. It was available to become a veterinarian, it was available to study biology, but not specifically animal behavior. In the '60s, Jane Goodall was the founder of this new science.

Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life.

Working with animals is always going to be tough because the animal doesn't know it's an actor.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

It is important for an actor to learn how to face a live audience.

That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

An actor should never be influenced by the surroundings, because you have to submit completely, and trust me, it's not a good feeling when you know that your father is going to come and watch you work every day!

I can't say I'm confident in my abilities as an actor.

I'm not a good actor.

I observe how people walk, laugh and talk. More than people I observe animals.

When I began acting, my biggest fear was whether the audience will appreciate the kind of films I do.

Believe it or not, I always found intimate scenes hard to do.

I am a terrible actor.

Our job as actors is to invent the things that bridge ourselves with the characters, so you have to build something if it's not there - you try and learn what makes people behave in a certain way.

There's this whole list of old personalities that I can act, as corny as that sounds, or as method actor as that sounds.

My strength lies in prepping. I'm not someone who can just walk onto the set and perform.

When I first started my acting career, I only knew what my acting teacher taught me. When a director gave me an impromptu direction, I didn't know what he wanted me to do, and I wanted to escape from the place.

If you want to deliver as an actor, you need to know the language. If you don't know what you are mouthing, how will you perform? For me, it is important to know the language.

So, suddenly I was an actor. I don't remember being nervous. I learned to be nervous later.

Whatever character you play, whatever film it is, whatever story it is, for me, in my training it's always something that gives you a layered character, it's understanding the secret of that character, and so whatever comes up as "Oh, I thought that person was that," you are always carrying that within you. So actually what you're playing all the way through is both and it's just what comes out in the scene or the circumstance.

I've got a lot of people that are really good at taming animals and working with animals; and they can't explain how they do. They just get a feeling from the animal.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.