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.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

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.

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

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

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

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.