I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.

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• Elia Kazan:

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

• Elia Kazan:

  I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.

• Elia Kazan:

  I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

• Elia Kazan:

  I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

• Elia Kazan:

  The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, n

• Elia Kazan:

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

• Elia Kazan:

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

• Elia Kazan:

  I was always a self-conscious person.

• Elia Kazan:

  I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nas

• Tristan Bernard:

  To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.