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" Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting. "

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" There was no doubt that there was a vast organization which was making fools of all the liberals in Hollywood and taking their money, that there was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. "

" I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb. "

" Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit. "

" You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive. "

" I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them. "

" I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did. "

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

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" I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. "

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" 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. "

" The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end. "

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" I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique. "

" I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does. "

" The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions. "

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" I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood. "

" I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise. "

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" I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. "

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" 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. "

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