Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

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

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 said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

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