Quote

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

Elia Kazan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Producer
Screenwriter
Theatrical Director
Writer
Istanbul
Elias Kazantzoglou
Audience
Voice
Exuberance
Admiring
Hearing
Playing
Knew
Secret

More quotes by Elia Kazan

Image
I was always a self-conscious person.
Elia Kazan
Image
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
Elia Kazan
Image
There aren't many male stars - that's a loose term - like Kirk [Douglas] around. Most of those virile personalities have to keep working, continue the image because they can't do anything else. They don't even read. Their real identity is in making those pictures. They have to keep jumping on horses and hitting somebody on the head with a gun.
Elia Kazan
Image
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.
Elia Kazan
Image
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
Elia Kazan
Image
I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan
Image
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
Elia Kazan
Image
Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
Elia Kazan
Image
I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
Elia Kazan
Image
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan
Image
Some directors, like Stevens [George Stevens], shoot full circle, 360 degrees, and that's what's right for them. I generally shoot at about a seven to one ratio. But part of that is because I've worked on every screenplay, so I'm further along in the visual concept.
Elia Kazan
Image
I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
Elia Kazan
Image
Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
Elia Kazan
Image
I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.
Elia Kazan
Image
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
Elia Kazan
Image
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
Elia Kazan
Image
Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
Elia Kazan
Image
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
Elia Kazan
Image
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Elia Kazan
Image
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
Elia Kazan