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

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

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" The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal. "

" A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people. "

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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. "

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

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

" You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" The physical life of the scene is determined by whether the set squeezes people together or whether the set has an escape place in it. "

" The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up. "

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

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

" The thing about Brando was that I'd make these directions, and he'd walk away. He'd heard enough... to get the machine going. "

" I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. "

" For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists. "

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