136 Quotes by Elia Kazan

I am not a cosmic orphan.

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.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

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

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.