From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams
Dean himself was not so sure of that as he prepared to leave for France a month later to begin location work for The Young Lions. Sammy Cahn had dinner with him at La Scala in Beverly Hills the night before he left. Cahn had never known Dean to reveal himself as he did that night.
“I’m so scared,” Dean told him. “I’m so scared.”
He opened his shirt and showed Sammy his chest, which was broken out in a rash from nerves.
“Dean, please listen to me,” Cahn said. “I beg you to listen to me. Do you know what Marlon Brando and Montgomery Clift would give to be able to what you do? Walk out on a stage and charm an audience out of their skin? Dean, you’re a champ. You’re a rare, rare champ. These fellas have to do what a director tells them to do. You are in charge.”
