The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway.