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Famous Quotes
Quotes by Elia Kazan
- I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
- I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
- I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
- I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
- I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
- I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
- Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
- Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
- Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
- The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
- There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
- Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
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