James Dean Quotes

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

“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

“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