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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.

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 value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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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 was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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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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