For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

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

The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.

There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.

A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.

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

I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.