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

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?