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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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Elia Kazan
Age: 94 †
Born: 1909
Born: September 7
Died: 2003
Died: September 28
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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
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I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
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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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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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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 was not a collective person or a bohemian I was an elitist.
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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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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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 don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
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