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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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