Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

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

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.