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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
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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 think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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