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 can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
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.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
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 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.
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
