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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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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 question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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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 knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.
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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 was always a self-conscious person.
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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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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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