You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.

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

I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.

I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.

I was both very successful and very left; the living demonstration of how you could be on the left and still be in the gossip columns and be envied for the money you made.

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.