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To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste ...
ELIA KAZAN

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will co...
ELIA KAZAN

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
ELIA KAZAN

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN

You've got to keep fighting -- you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
ELIA KAZAN

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cann...
ELIA KAZAN

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
ELIA KAZAN

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
ELIA KAZAN

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left a...
ELIA KAZAN

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

If there is a better performance by a man in the history of film, I don't know what it is.
ELIA KAZAN

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive
ELIA KAZAN

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
ELIA KAZAN

Jesus Christ, he is Cal!
ELIA KAZAN

I've been ratting on myself all these years and I didn't know it. I'm glad what I done.
ELIA KAZAN

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.
ELIA KAZAN

He was smart, he knew everything.
ELIA KAZAN

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
ELIA KAZAN

I thought what a terrible thing I had done; not the political aspect of it because maybe that was co...
ELIA KAZAN

The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
ELIA KAZAN

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are p...
ELIA KAZAN

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
ELIA KAZAN

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
ELIA KAZAN

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
ELIA KAZAN

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
ELIA KAZAN

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film e...
ELIA KAZAN

Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
ELIA KAZAN

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
ELIA KAZAN

I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
ELIA KAZAN

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or ...
ELIA KAZAN

I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
ELIA KAZAN

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
ELIA KAZAN

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other c...
ELIA KAZAN

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
ELIA KAZAN

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to ...
ELIA KAZAN

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
ELIA KAZAN

The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
ELIA KAZAN When you come to my show you get the real thing. I don't pretend to be Sinatra — I just happen to ...
PAUL ELIA If we drop the rates today, and the price increase continues, then in a very short period of time we...
ELIA GERMANI I don't think it's our role to sit down with various parties, and come to an agreement, a consensus....
ELIA GERMANI WHAT WE'RE DEALING with here is a request by the electric company to pass on to its customers costs ...
ELIA GERMANI This is a long-term problem, it's a long-term energy crisis, which has not been addressed by either ...
ELIA GERMANI If you cannot be quiet, I'm going to ask you to leave the room.
ELIA GERMANI

I think film writing, you're thinking in pictures, and stage writing, you're thinking in dia...
ZOE KAZAN

I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creat...
ZOE KAZAN

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.
ZOE KAZAN

When I look back, I can say that the summer when I was 19 was a formative time for me. But at the ti...
ZOE KAZAN

I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movie...
ZOE KAZAN

I think action should be revealed through character, so if you have a plot problem, it's probabl...
ZOE KAZAN

I never wanted to be a playwright.
ZOE KAZAN

I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo...
ZOE KAZAN

I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
ZOE KAZAN

Writing-wise, I like to have a lot of things on the burners at once, because when I hit a wall, I li...
ZOE KAZAN

If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
ZOE KAZAN

I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope...
ZOE KAZAN

Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it ...
ZOE KAZAN

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think it's rea...
ZOE KAZAN

I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally chang...
ZOE KAZAN

I really love people. I love to meet people. I'm curious about people.
ZOE KAZAN

I don't have a lot of patience for boring arthouse movies.
ZOE KAZAN

And when I get bored, it's like the worst parts of me come out. I really veer to self-destructiv...
ZOE KAZAN

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expec...
ZOE KAZAN

My schedule is completely different doing a play than it is doing a movie, and I actually think it&#...
ZOE KAZAN

I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.
ZOE KAZAN

People really do make the assumption that I had some weirdo Hollywood upbringing, but my parents are...
ZOE KAZAN

I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
ZOE KAZAN

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go...
ZOE KAZAN I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My fathe...
LAINIE KAZAN I went to a lot of theatre. My parents were very involved with the performing arts. I went to nightc...
LAINIE KAZAN I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with...
LAINIE KAZAN I have a rich, full, textured life.
LAINIE KAZAN I'm an exercise and yoga junkie and I feel good.
LAINIE KAZAN I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu...
LAINIE KAZAN

And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give bir...
ZOE KAZAN

Nothing's going to come to you by sitting around and waiting for it.
ZOE KAZAN

I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew u...
ZOE KAZAN

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the thea...
ZOE KAZAN This is the first wave of layoffs. The second wave -- I don't know when that would be -- may be a mu...
ELINA KAZAN To be a true national brand, you really have to have stores all across the country.
ELINA KAZAN It's not as if it's like two complete, separate stores.
ELINA KAZAN We're making every effort to offer jobs to displaced employees.
ELINA KAZAN We are very concerned about the individuals who were hurt.
ELINA KAZAN We're looking forward to having them here next year, them and their family. They are remarkable youn...
ELINA KAZAN They are remarkable young ladies. We're very sad they were injured.
ELINA KAZAN

Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure--and for such a tomb migh...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A woman asked a coachman, "Are you full inside?" Upon which Lamb put his head through the window a...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Who first invented work, and bound the free And holyday-rejoicing spirit down . . . To that dr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

"Presents," I often say, endear Absents."
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

For with G.D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak it profanely) to be present wi...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold!
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

You do not play then at whist, sir? Alas, what a sad old age you are preparing for yourself! [Fr...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Do not fold, spindle or mutilate.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The game [of poker] exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

A clear fire, a clean hearth, and the rigour of the game.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The cheerful Sabbath bells, wherever heard, Strike pleasant on the sense, most like the voice ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Suck, baby! suck! mother's love grows by giving: Drain the sweet founts that only thrive by wast...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

To pile up honey upon sugar, and sugar upon honey, to an interminable tedious sweetness.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Half as sober as a judge.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading; I cannot sit ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed;...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

What a place to be in is an old library! It seems as though all the souls of all the writers that ...
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Neat, not gaudy.
CHARLES LAMB (USED PSEUDONYM ELIA)

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

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