"I was an outsider... but I was also……" — Elia Kazan
"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."
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88 Quotes by Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan has 88 quotes on this site.
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You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
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The real challenge is not simply to survive. Hell, anyone can do that. It’s to survive as yourself, undiminished.
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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
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I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
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I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's…
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Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.
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The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their…
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If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
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Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
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The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
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The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
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I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.
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More Outsider Quotes
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A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are,…
— Lauren Bacall
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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when…
— Russell Baker
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Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that…
— Phyllis Bottome
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I always felt like an outsider growing up. In school, I felt like I never fit in. But it didn't…
— Margaret Cho
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a…
— Nick Cave
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I don't have any authority to talk about the domestic policies of America. But as an outsider, I am mystified…
— Nick Cave
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I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me,…
— Madonna Ciccone
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The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others,…
— Nhat Hanh
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In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior.…
— Christopher Hitchens
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My theory is that everyone at one time or another has been at the fringe of society in some way:…
— Alice Hoffman
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It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill - it's a life which, to put…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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Race doesn't mean what it used to in America anymore. It just doesn't. Obama's black, but he's not black the…
— Louis C. K.
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