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Elia Kazan

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Elia Kazan: A Biography
RICHARD SCHICKEL Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit f...
ETHEL WATERS My best film composing experience was with Elia Kazan.
ALEX NORTH 'A Face in the Crowd' is Elia Kazan's forgotten movie.
PEYTON REED But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.
DAVID E. KELLEY I trained as an actor with Lee Strasberg, Elia Kazan, and Harold Clurman, and those guys set a very ...
MARTIN LANDAU Garth was smart enough that he could have done just about anything. He was book savvy, and the thing...
JEFF GWALTNEY I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they...
MARTIN LANDAU Subliminally, I had always wanted to act. Although I had only performed in a couple of plays, I was ...
MARTIN LANDAU He was a good people reader, and Murphy was smart. He knew the tricks of the trade.
MARSHALL CARLISLE I knew he was real smart as a kid but this is like.. he really did good!
KATHY GARDNER Relaxing, experiencing nature and laughing are what rejuvenate me and make me feel happy. I believe ...
SUI HE Since raised blood pressure is the major cause of stroke, the blood pressure lowering effect of pota...
FENG HE As a young child, I suffered from poor health. My parents encouraged me to swim, which really improv...
SUI HE I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE These findings provide strong support for the recommendations encouraging the public to consume more...
FENG HE The average fruit and vegetable intake in most developed countries is about three servings per day, ...
FENG HE They are the Chinese heroes. I am happy for their performance and the result is not the most importa...
HE ZHENLIANG This will be conducive to the development of Sino-US relations and China's relationships with the re...
HE YAFEI The best way to resolve Sino-US trade imbalance is to expand bilateral trade cooperation. Restrictin...
HE YAFEI They are sorry there is no more Soviet Union and they don't know how to act.
HE YAFEI We are willing to import more U.S. goods.
HE YAFEI Even when he's making dumplings with peasants, he speaks memorized words and sounds like a People's ...
HE WEIFANG This is a critical moment. There is a lot of opposition to continuing the reforms as they are today.
HE WEIFANG I unequivocally state the wish that the Communist Party should become two parties.
HE WEIFANG The situation exists in almost every well-known Chinese university.
HE WEIFANG The government really wants to slow down investment, but it can't control local governments who have...
HE FAN The new managed floating currency regime is just an interim system. There is a chance of a further w...
HE FAN Eventually, we found that the situation there was more serious than what we imagined.
HE CHANGCHUI Part of our mission is to find out what kind of assistance is required.
HE CHANGCHUI He knew he could always be smart later, if that turned out to be a better strategy. But once you adm...
ORSON SCOTT CARD When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'...
DAVID GALE I knew everything about him. He was easy to talk to. He was easy to interview.
RANDY LOYD Everything we know about Hamilton, we knew when he was alive, because he told us.
LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Fly you crows. My father was not a spectacle. He was the greatest man I ever knew. He was my everyth...
STACEY LEE I asked him why he didn't pick it up, run and score, ... But he knew the game was going to be over i...
BOBBY JOHNSON The man who believed he knew everything went on to know nothing. The man who knew that he knew nothi...
JASON JINIL LEE, JR. He's so smart, and he's a good skater. He moves the puck well, he shoots well. He obviously does eve...
ROB SCUDERI Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.
WALTER ISAACSON 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 Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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 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 Todd McFarlane knew that the [McGwire] ball wasn't worth $3 million when he bought it, but he got $3...
MIKE HEFFNER Then August knew. Thomas didn’t dwell on things. Thomas was strong, and he didn’t know what it w...
KRIS NOEL Kazan was an old friend, I met him in 1938. He picked up radio jobs for eating money, so I met him o...
RICHARD WIDMARK I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious t...
IRIS APFEL He did everything full throttle. He enjoyed life. He wasn't stupid. He knew he had so much to live f...
MARCY ROWE He was listening. I could see in his eyes he was recording everything. Mentally, he was so far ahead...
GRANT WASHBURN He was always a good listener. He wasn't one of those kids who came on the team and thought he knew ...
JACK RINGEL I think he Oswald felt he was a failure and for the United States and for President Kennedy and all ...
JOHN SHERMAN COOPER Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real qu...
MIKE TYSON When he was in a game, he put his mind, body and soul into trying to win it. He was animated, but th...
BILL GRANGER He knew that in film there was power, and he was the man working the film, and he knew he was good a...
DAVID HALBERSTAM He was interested in almost everything, which made him a good listener. He wanted to know what other...
ALAN HOWARD He knew what he was doing.
BRETT FESTERLING no one knew he was there, (and) Lasorda made sure everyone knew he was there.
BUZZIE BAVASI She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.
OSCAR WILDE He was an absolute great guy, ... He knew the people in the county. He knew the civil process book. ...
CHARLES DEAN He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER He was a masterful negotiator. He knew the pressure points. He knew how to wear people down.
CRAIG PETERSON He was very smart and he was very passionately committed to the causes he believed in. He was always...
GEORGINE GETTY He knew deliberately what he was doing and why he was doing it.
GAYLE ATTEBERRY He was so smart; in his engineering classes he just understood it and did well. He was made to be an...
JOE MICUCCI He was recognized in the top 10 percent of the state. He was a very smart young man.
ANDRES PEREZ

More Elia Kazan

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 Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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 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)