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I was always a self-conscious person.
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
Wonder is our need today, not information.
Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.
Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
I left the theater; I literally left to begin a new life.
I think there should be collaboration, but under my thumb.
Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies.
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.
I was very intense. I think it's a privilege to be an actor.
Every picture that is successful has one little miracle in it.
I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
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 not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.
I will say nothing to an actor that cannot be translated into action.
Our relationship was cursed by the fact that we agreed on everything.
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility.
If you're going to play a cowboy, show up with the horse at the audition
A good director's not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.
I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.
I value peace when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
I joined the Communist Party late in 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
The makers of entertainment must try, in our field, to be honest and grown-up.
I didn't have that much confidence. Maybe it looks that way. I'm glad it does.
I value peace, too, when it is not bought at the price of fundamental decencies.
I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.
I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.
People made suggestions, but, hell, I don't actually listen to anybody, I just go my own way.
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.