I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

I may be getting old, but not foolish.

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.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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

I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.

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