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I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Admiring Audience Before Exuberance Hearing Knew Playing Secret Voice

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I was always a self-conscious person.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Always Person Self-Conscious

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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 a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Acting Damn Dollars Experience Exposed Go Minute Nasty Now One Minute Paid Stage Thousand Up You Yourself

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I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Actor Call Did First-Class Right You

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I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Actor Intense Privilege Think Very I Think

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You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Just Lines Revealing Sit Something Unusual You

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You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Own People Remind Responsibility Struggles You

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I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Along Communists Even Go Me Quit Superior Them I Quit

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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: Better Communism Did Future Than True Understood

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For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

~Elia Kazan

Topics: After American Communists Faithful Resigned Still Thinking Way Years

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: September 7th, 1909

Died: September 28th, 2003

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