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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 was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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 value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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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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The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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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 think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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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