Top 67 Quotes by Elia Kazan

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

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

Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

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.