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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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 truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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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 knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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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 like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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.
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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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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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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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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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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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