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

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"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."

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

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

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"The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going."

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"Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it."

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

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

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