“[about her relationship with actor James Dean] He wanted me to love him unconditionally, but Jimmy was not able to love someone else in return … it was the troubled boy that wanted to be loved very badly. I loved Jimmy as I have loved no one else in my life, but I could not give him the enormous amount that he needed. Loving Jimmy was something that could empty a person.
~ Pier Angeli
“He didn’t show you very much. He’d challenge you to find him. Then when you’d found him, he’d still make you guess. It was an endless game with him. The thing people missed about Jimmy was his mischievousness. He was the most constantly mischievous person I think I’ve ever met. Full of tricks, full of magic, full of outrageousness.
~ Stuart Stern
“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
” All of us were touched by Jimmy, and he was touched by greatness.”
- Natalie Wood
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor’s duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.”