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You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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Elias Kazantzoglou
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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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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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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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 value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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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 was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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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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