"I will say nothing to an actor that……" — Elia Kazan
"I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action."
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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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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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