Elia Kazan Quotes

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

Those who live are those who fight.

… failure is a very condition of his life; one can never dream of eliminating it without immediately dreaming of death. This does not mean that one should consent to failure, but rather one must consent to struggle against it without respite.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

You should fight for every breath you have.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I'm going to be pretty strong until I die.

Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.

Better to suffer than to die.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I've always believed in survival.

It is a struggle. But I don't mind. I will just keep fighting on.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

I've lived through a lifetime of crises and survived.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.

They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

All of the characters I've had the chance to create are survivors. But we live in a world where surviving makes up most of what we do.

The only way to make it through life is to fight.

Either you give in, or you fight. That's all I know, being where I'm from. You fight for what you want. You go after what you want. The only thing I could do was give up or keep fighting for what I wanted in life.