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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."

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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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"Losing your job brings you closer to your destiny."

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"My first career was as a coach and a teacher."

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"Follow your passion and learn how to make money at it. Or don't follow your passion and learn to make money at that. They are the same. It's a choice."

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"I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since."

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"I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor."
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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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"I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed."
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"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"
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"I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice."
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"There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway."
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"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."
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"I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise."
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"The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it."
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