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Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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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 may be getting old, but not foolish.
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Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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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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A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
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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 was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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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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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 think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
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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 was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
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People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
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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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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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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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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 left the theater I literally left to begin a new life.
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