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

Acting, I found, was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?

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

Take it from a director: if you get an actor that Sandy Meisner has trained, you've been blessed.

I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.