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Actor Quotes by Elia Kazan
- Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
- I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
- I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
- The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a…
- There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
- You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
- With kids you can take a chance but casting a guy at 45 is different. You don't discover somebody that age. If an actor hasn't…
- I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
- 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…
- It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's…
- Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
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