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Elia Kazan

"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be."

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Asa Don Brown

"It's very difficult for me to speak about being an actor."

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Asa Don Brown

"My college training was primarily in theatre, with an eye to becoming a director, actor, or producer."

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Asa Don Brown

"A reporter discovers, in the course of many years of interviewing celebrities, that most actors are more attractive behind a spotlight than over a spot of tea."

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Asa Don Brown

"As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot."

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Asa Don Brown

"James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect."

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Asa Don Brown

"The filmmaker's got to make it his story and the actors have got to make it their story."

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Asa Don Brown

"I haven't gotten labeled as a Hispanic actor."

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Asa Don Brown

"Eventually though, I'd like to have my own production company. Then I could create great opportunities not only for myself, but for other actors as well."

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Asa Don Brown

"I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting."

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Elia Kazan
"I was always a self-conscious person."

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Elia Kazan
"Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything."

Fact

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Elia Kazan
"I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this."

Career

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Elia Kazan
"For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists."

Politics

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Elia Kazan
"There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense."

Actor

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Elia Kazan
"Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it."

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Elia Kazan
"To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable."

Party

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Elia Kazan
"I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action."

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Elia Kazan
"The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more."

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Elia Kazan
"I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up."

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