It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor;… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I didn't have the problem of finding myself at 45 on the wrong course - I always wanted to be a film director. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money,… — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
I'm very pro-America, but I feel it necessary to keep in touch with Europe to maintain a perspective. — Elia Kazan Copy Share Image
