Elia Kazan quotes - page 3

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. (Elia Kazan)
I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. View quote
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I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am. View quote
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I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action. View quote
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I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action. View quote
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Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? View quote
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable. View quote
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Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you. View quote
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I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. (Elia Kazan)
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. View quote
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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. View quote
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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. View quote
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A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do. View quote
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing. View quote
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He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [H]e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent. View quote
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The Group was the best thing professionally that ever happened to me. I met two wonderful men. Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, both of whom were around thirty years old. They were magnetic, fearless leaders. During the summer I was an apprentice, they were entertaining in a Jewish summer camp... At the end of the summer they said to me: "You may have talent for something, but it's certainly not acting. View quote
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The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. View quote
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I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. View quote
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I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. (Elia Kazan)
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. View quote
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