I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.

I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.