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

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

The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.

I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.