Famous Quotes

"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."

Elia Kazan on Experience

More quotes about Experience

• "Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."

  Soren Kierkegaard on Experience

• "The only source of knowledge is experience."

  Albert Einstein on Experience

• "Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."

  C. S. Lewis on Experience

• "Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

  Oscar Wilde on Experience

• "A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

  Mark Twain on Experience

More quotes by Elia Kazan

• "The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal."

• "I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement."

• "Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

• "I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity."

• "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."