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

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

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

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

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it.

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