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I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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