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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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 question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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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 want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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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 may be getting old, but not foolish.
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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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