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"I liken it to a kind of star or comet that fell through the sky and everybody
still talks about it. They say, 'Ah, remember the night when you saw that shooting
star?'"
-- Julie Harris
"He seemed to capture that moment of youth, that moment where we're all desperately
seeking to find ourselves."
-- Dennis Hopper
"[James Dean] was spectacularly talented, handsome in a fragile sort of way and
absolutely outrageous. He was an original. Impish, compelling, magnetic, utterly
winning one moment, obnoxious the next. Definitely gifted."
-- Edna Ferber author of best-selling novel "Giant" from her autobiography "A
Kind of Magic"
"Sometimes we'd just sit and talk, or we'd listen to music for a couple of hours at a time without saying a word. Sometimes he'd get up and dance. He used to do modern, interpretive things. Jimmy had a wonderful pantomimic gift - I couldn't
compare him to anyone else. He had a quality and style all his own."
-- Jane Withers
"In Texas, one disgustingly hot night during the filming of Giant, he and I ate
a full jar of peanut butter, a box of crackers and six Milky Ways, and drank
twelve Coca-Cola's!"
-- Mercedes McCambridge (Luz Benedict) from her autobiography, "The Quality
of Mercy"
"In front of the camera, he had an instinct that was nearly uncanny. I don't
recall ever working with anyone who had such a gift. I recall one scene, where
he was in a shadow, and had to lift his head to the light. We explained how it
should go and he played it exactly right, to the half inch, the first time. He
just seemed to know how it should be, without rehearsal or anything."
-- William C. Mellor, Cinematographer
"Jamie and I were like brother and sister. He told me in fact he thought of me
as a sister. Our relationship was strictly platonic and spiritual."
-- Eartha Kitt
"Jimmy was a very close and good friend of mine. I have fond memories of Jim,
the days we spent together in New York City as young actors --- walking the streets
and talking about the theater and wondering about our next job, reading books
and discussing them; seeing plays, seeing films; working in acting workshops
and being serious young fellows about the thing we loved most, which was acting
in the theater and films."
-- Martin Landau
"Jim had a year away from Warner Brothers. We had planned to use that time to
get our company started. We would have done both feature pictures and a television
series, which would have allowed Jim to break in as a director. I think he would
have been a great director."
-- Nicholas Ray
"To the ranchers and the people around there, he was just as nice as could be. Dean came to me and said, 'Bob, I want to be a Texan twenty-four hours a day. I'd like for you to work with me. I'll
even pay you out of my pocket.' So I got him some clothes and boots and he starts
talking like a Texan every day."
-- Bob Hinkle
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