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

I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.

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

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

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

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

I was always a self-conscious person.

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

I was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.

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

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.

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

I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.

I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.

I've lost many of my best friends... I'm going to satisfy myself now, not the critics, not even my friends.

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.

Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.

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

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