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

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 have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.

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

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth