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

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

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

Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement.

You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.