You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.

I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.

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

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

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.