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Elia Kazan Quotes

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: September 7, 1909 - September 28, 2003

Topics

You Actor Right Call Did

I don't think Wisconsin should become known as a state where we shoot cats.

Cats Think Become Shoot Where State

There was one television in the living room, and we all sat around on Sundays and watched Ed Sullivan.

Television Living Room Living Room

The fate of love is that it always seems too little or too much.

Love Love Is Fate Too Much Always

Texture is something we forget - it makes outfits look very expensive. You can do a monochromatic outfit, if you're afraid of things that are more colorful and printed, and still create interest.

You Look Outfit Create Forget More

Some of my favorite music in the world is Haydn. I had a sabbatical one year and made myself one promise: to play a different Haydn piano sonata each day - they are inexhaustible treasures.

Music Myself Day World Year Play

My mom was a Democrat and I was scared to death that she was gonna blow it. First I was going to hell with Monroe, and now to Republican hell with Nixon.

Death Mom Hell Now She First

Directors sometimes have good ideas that I wished I'd had, not on rewriting but simply on staging.

Good Ideas Sometimes Good Ideas Had

Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaign as he wants, but you can only give $2,300. His free speech rights are different from yours, thus violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution. It's absurd.

Money Free Constitution Speech You

When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you in squabbles with her own daughter - that's something.

Daughter You Mother-In-Law Sides Own

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

Work Time People Start Thinking You

I feel like, in Boston, I was a little too complacent. I could get on stage when I wanted. I didn't feel like I was pushing myself. I could get work in New England and not have to travel too much.

Work Myself Travel Feel Too Much

Whenever I met anyone who knew anything, I would bore them stiff until they told me what they knew.

Me Anything Would Who Knew Bore

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