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All of us were touched by Jimmy, and he was touched by
greatness."
-- Natalie Wood
"He was very afraid of being hurt. He was afraid of opening up in case it was
turned around and used against him."
-- Elizabeth Taylor
"[Dean's] death caused a loss in the movie world that our industry could ill
afford. Had he lived long enough, I feel he would have made some incredible films.
He had sensitivity and a capacity to express emotion."
-- Gary Cooper
"I didn't know what to do. How do you tell an eight-year-old boy his mother's going to die? I tried. In my own stumbling way I tried to prepare Jim for it. Nowadays, he lives in a world we don't understand too well, the actor's world. We don't see too much of him. But he's a good boy, my Jim. A good boy, and I"m very proud of him. Not easy to understand, no sir. He's not easy to understand. But he's all man, and he'll
make his mark. Mind you, my boy will make his mark."
-- Winton Dean in Modern Screen, August 1955
"He could look in a delicatessen window and suddenly
start waving at a bowl of prunes, like they were alive.
He was childish in a charming way."
-- Christine White
"He had the greatest power of concentration I have ever encountered. He prepared
himself so well in advance for any scene he was playing, that the lines were
not simply something he had memorized -- they were actually a very real part
of him."
-- Jim Backus
"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
"He would be bothered when someone would say he was mean and disrespectful. Because
actually, he wasn't. They took silence to mean he cared little or nothing for
them.
They didn't have the insight, or didn't care to exercise the insight, in knowing
that he was a shy boy that just didn't know how to approach them. Instead of
making an attempt to approach him, they just, well, they just wrote him off."
-- Lew Bracker
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