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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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The thing with films is that you have to make something that will get people out of their houses, away from the TV set. You must touch people, say something. Otherwise, they'll stay at home.
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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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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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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
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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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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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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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I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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 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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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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