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I left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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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I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
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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 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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Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
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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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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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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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I was always a self-conscious person.
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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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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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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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