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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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 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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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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 will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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I was always a self-conscious person.
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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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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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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