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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 was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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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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I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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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I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
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