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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.

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 was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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 very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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