Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

Joe Hyams says that Dean was "one of the rare stars like Rock Hudson and Montgomery Clift whom both men and women find sexy. He is a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film Rebel Without a Cause (1955) in which he starred as troubled Los Angeles teenager Jim Stark.

100 Stars list.