James Dean Quotes

“I emerged into the sticky-hot evening to find Ricky smoking on the hood of his battered car. 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. He was all of those things, a bizarre cross-pollination of subcultures possible only in South Florida.”
― Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”
― James Dean

“Welcome me, if you will,
as the ambassador of a hatred
who knows its cause
and does not envy you your whim
of ending him.”
― Frank O'Hara, Meditations in an Emergency

“I watched, for the umpteenth time, James Dean in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE. Man oh man, I'm trying my damnedest to recreate the impact that cool cat, Dean, had on the world with the use of ONLY my words. Why? Because I (full disclosure) was an actor at one time in my life and though theatre didn't pay the bills, off-Broadway productions were (and maybe still are) my thing.”
― A.K. Kuykendall

“IF HE CAN'T SEE WHERE HE IS, THEN HE CAN'T TALK ABOUT WHERE HE IS”
― Tim Heidecker

“I learned that everything in life is temporary — and we take for granted those that are most dear to us.”
― Lew Bracker, Jimmy & Me: A Personal Memoir Of A Great Friendship: JAMES DEAN & LEW BRACKER

“Brooke found her former husband, now seventy-three and with only a few months to live, in bed. He sat up the moment Brooke entered and began apologizing for everything he had put her through. 'It's okay,' she assured him as she drew near.
HE: Brooke, do you still love me?
SHE: Yes, Dennis, of course.
HE: You're the only woman I ever loved.”
― Mark Rozzo, Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles