"You can't just sit there and do the……" — Elia Kazan
"You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual."
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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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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
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For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own…
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Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.
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Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
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The question is: how bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your…
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The first lines of defence against criminals are the victims themselves.
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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I watched 'The Muppet Movie' obsessively. I can still pretty much say a lot of the lines and do a…
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It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like -…
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Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines.
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The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to…
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'3:10 to Yuma' was one that I just kept on talking and thinking about after reading it. And I think…
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