- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the Communists and have for many years and don't feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
- Compliant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm small, but I'm neither compliant nor agreeable.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anybody who informs on other people is doing something disturbing and even disgusting.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hey, you must be doin' good, 'cause I never hear from you.
- Made
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- Nov 07, 2020
The motion pictures I have made and the plays I have chosen to direct represent my convictions.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed.
- Communist
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spend most of my time straining to be a nice guy so people would like me.
- Outsider
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was an outsider... but I was also sympathetic with people that were struggling to get up, because I struggled to get up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?
- Audience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I knew the exuberance of playing before an admiring audience and hearing my secret voice.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always a self-conscious person.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
- Nov 07, 2020
You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.
- Faithful
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.
- Actor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I may be getting old, but not foolish.
- Fighter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe Bankhead a gift; she made a director out of me.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
A film director has to get a shot, no matter what he does. We're desperate people.
- Nov 07, 2020
I question the value of stars. I think they're overrated. They get too much money, too much praise.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
The belief that the good in American society will finally win out... I don't believe any more.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like directors who come on the set and create something that's a little dangerous, difficult or unusual.
- Nov 07, 2020
The more ambivalent you are and the more uncertain you are, then you can get something that you cannot anticipate.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you know what an actor has, you can reach in and arouse it. If you don't know what he has, you don't know what the hell is going on.
- Direction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The essence of the stage is concentration and penetration. Of the screen action, movement, sweep.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fragile
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have no idea how fragile an actor's self-worth is.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.
- Envied
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- Nov 07, 2020