Elia Kazan Quotes
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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Interior design is a business of trust.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I depend on good editors and a good director.
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Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
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Compromise has a negative connotation.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I'm dragging the audience to hell with me
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No behavior can be changed before it's acknowledged. And no addiction is beyond the reach of Love.
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Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
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When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
