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Elia Kazan Quotes about Acting

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Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

Artist, Appreciate, Acting

"Elia Kazan: A Life".

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

Acting, Realistic, Poetry Is

Elia Kazan (2009). “Kazan on Directing”, p.46, Anchor

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

Inspirational, Motivational, Acting

Elia Kazan (2011). “Elia Kazan: A Life”, p.485, Knopf

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.

Acting, Dollars, Nasty

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

Acting, Groups, Actors

Elia Kazan (2014). “The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan”, p.71, Vintage

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