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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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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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