Elia Kazan Quotes

I never pretended to be a great actor.

I think to be a good actor you need either a good experience of life or education, or both.

I don't feel like I properly started acting until I did my first play, 'Tusk, Tusk.'

I don't think of myself as an actress. I still think I'm fannying around in my mum's front room.

I'm just an actor. I am nothing special.

I've always been fairly confident in my acting.

I'm not entirely comfortable saying I'm an actor, because it seems like a very weird, almost dorky thing to say you are.

When I first started acting, I was just crap.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I learned how to act working in TV.

I think I'm not a natural performer; I think I'm an actor.

I really consider acting a high art.

I am always interested in good performance, always tried to improve my skill as an actor.

I've never taken an acting lesson in my life, and it's not my chosen profession, so I'm flattered when people say I can do it and give me props for doing it.

I think that acting could be a talent.

I'm not a good actor.

I don't think it was a surprise that I ended up as an actor, and it was anything but a disappointment.

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.

Sometimes I think of movie acting as advanced pretend.

I would absolutely recommend for actors to start in the theater because it establishes a foundation in your craft that you can build off of.

I don't think I would be an actor if I was that intelligent.

I became disillusioned with dance when I was 16 and started focusing on acting.

There is probably some great acting that goes on in movies from people who have never been on a stage, but if you are in for the long haul, you'd be missing an enormous part of what being an actor is if you're not part of theater.

People often argue about this. Obviously one of the skills in performance is acting, and you can't expect every Romeo to really be in love with their Juliet!