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

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

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

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

If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.