James Dean Monologues

I woke up this morning, you know... and the sun was shining, and it was nice, and all that type of stuff. And the first thing, I saw you, and, uh, I said, "Boy, this is gonna be one terrific day, so you better live it up, because tomorrow you'll be nothing." You see? And I almost was.

If I had one day when I didn't have to be all confused and I didn't have to feel that I was ashamed of everything. If I felt that I belonged someplace. You know?

Once you been up there you know you've been someplace.

You can wake up now, the universe has ended.

You say it's because of me, you say it's because of the neighborhood! You use every other phony excuse! Mom, I just… Once I want to do something right! And I don't want you to run away from me again! Dad.

Please, lock me up. I'm gonna hit somebody and I don't want to…

Can you really remember back that far? I can't even remember what happened yesterday.

I didn't chicken. You saw where I jumped. What did I have to do, kill myself?

They think I can make friends if we move. Just move, everything will be roses and sunshine.

If he had guts to knock Mom cold once, then maybe she'd be happy and then she'd stop picking on him. Because they make mush out of him! Just mush!