Elia Kazan Quotes
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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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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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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TV and films are same for me. I took a decision to be an actor, and I am an actor. I never decided to be TV actor or film actor.
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I'm an actor.
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Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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Nevertheless, this one fact should be apparent: turning the other cheek is a bribe. It is a valid form of action for only so long as the Christian is impotent politically or militarily.
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I mean, I'm an actor. I do what comes along.
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Writers are not meant for action.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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It was never my goal to be an actor.
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I'm a storyteller, and I was an actor, so I have a fairly thin grip on reality to begin with.
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Just about every actor wants to be a Disney cartoon voice at some point.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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In the start-up setting and in most companies, the output is action-oriented. You need to be getting things done and making decisions, often with limited information.
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I'm basically a fairly traditional filmmaker.
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My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls... one of those.
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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
