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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 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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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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 truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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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The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
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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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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 knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I may be getting old, but not foolish.
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