Elia Kazan Quotes

Saying 'yes' to one thing means saying 'no' to another. That's why decisions can be hard sometimes.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.

But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

You make decisions and you're not going to please everybody all the time.

There is no decision that we can make that doesn't come with some sort of balance or sacrifice.

Starting off, all options are always open, but as soon as you choose something, you inevitably limit yourself. If you go for B, A is out.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

To remove or not to remove? That is the question.

You have to make choices always. It's about the omission of something for the sake of another.

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.

You can have either the Resurrection or you can have Liberace. But you can't have both.

You know sometimes you're in a position of risk and you feel that you can turn good or bad.

When you're offered things, it makes it so much easier to be indecisive. And it's silly because you can pass on some really amazing things.

I think most people are not willing to make the tough choices.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

I think that quite often you can only find a choice between bad and worse. But I think it's worth making the effort, and I like to expose my characters to that sort of situation.

If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.

Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.

Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

You know, we always tried to rationalize by saying you take the good, you take the upside, you got to deal with the downside, you've to take the downside.

Of two evils choose the prettier.

I hope I never have to pick between all these things I get to do.