Elia Kazan Quotes
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 walk afterwards.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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The lens of contract focuses predominantly on gains from trade whereas orthodoxy is focused on resource allocation.
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I have an older brother who is an actor as well.
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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I said, to be a New Yorker you have to live here for six months, and if at the end of the six months you find you walk faster, talk faster, think faster, you're a New Yorker.
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Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.
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I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
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I'm an actor.
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It's definitely weird, because pretty much everybody owns the Tony Hawk videogame. Just going over to people's houses and watching play me as I walk in – that's actually happened a few times and that's so weird. It's like, 'Dude, you're playing me right now.' It was too weird.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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I work out, I go to pilates, I walk and I eat everything I can get my hands on.
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Just to go into a shop without getting stared at would be nice. I mean, I don't walk around like, 'Oh, I'm trying to be famous' - I try to lead as normal a life as possible - but sometimes it's annoying. It's fine; it's not a massive problem, but sometimes it's just a bit uncomfortable.
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Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.
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Jason Alexander is a committed actor, he went from working on a show about nothing to actually doing nothing.
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To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor.
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I never know," Harry called to Hagrid over the noise of the cart, "What's the difference between a stalagmite and a stalactite?" "Stalagmite's got an 'm' in it," said Hagrid.
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It's about listening first, then selling.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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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 walk afterwards.
