I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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

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.

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

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

I was always a self-conscious person.