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

I have no spy stories to tell, because I saw no spies. Nor did I understand, at that time, any opposition between American and Russian national interest.

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.

The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.

A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.

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