Elia Kazan Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

  Elia Kazan

  Believe, Fighting, Effort

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

  Elia Kazan

  Artist, Appreciate, Acting

  "Elia Kazan: A Life".

• 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

  Elia Kazan

  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.

  Elia Kazan

  Acting, Dollars, Nasty

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

  Elia Kazan

  Acting, Groups, Actors

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

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

  Elia Kazan

  Acting, Realistic, Poetry Is

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

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