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" Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. "
Elia Kazan
Waiting
Death
He
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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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" 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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" Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick? "
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" I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends. "
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Friends
" I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. "
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" I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right. "
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" The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. "
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" I was always a self-conscious person. "
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" I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual. "
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" Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. "
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" I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest. "
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Time
" To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but is bitter and unforgettable. "
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Communist
" 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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Experience
Yourself
" The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep. "
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Action
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" Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything. "
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Fact
Our
" Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it. "
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Mystery
Will
Cool
" I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later. "
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Communist
Got
Party
" I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. "
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Version
Hard
Advertising
" The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed. "
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Communists
Which
Daily
" I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. "
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I Think
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Thumb
" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "
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Someone
Others
Dare
" The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. "
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Try
Field
Must
" I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. "
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Superior
Quit
Me
" I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt. "
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Suffer
Contradiction
Fear
" 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. "
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Way
Soul
Left
" I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. "
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Courage
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Generosity
" 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. "
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You
Gossip
Living
" Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it. "
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Picture
Little
" I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor. "
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" I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist. "
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Person
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