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

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

Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.

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 will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.

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

It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth