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

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

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.

The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.

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.

Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.

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.