Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.

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