"You're tearing me apart!..." - Quote by James Dean

“I don't have to explain anything to anybody.”

“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.”

“An actor should be judged by his performance only.”

“To get the stuff out of you, especially if what you're dealing with is yourself, requires you to open up and touch tender spots. You have to be anesthetized a little bit.”

“What greater pain could mortals have than this: To see their children dead before their eyes?”

“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it.”

“When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.”

“I don't have depressed moods. I'm happy, just very, very happy.”

“The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men.”