James Dean (film)

"[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."

"I don't want to be just good. I want to be great."

"[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."

"I'm playing the drums! Go to hell!"

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

"[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."

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

"[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."

"Too fast to live. Too young to die."

"The stars that burn brightest burn quickest."