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

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

You can't just sit there and do the lines. You have to do something revealing or unusual.

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

I was even superior to the Communists and when they didn't go along with me, I quit them.

I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.

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

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

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

Elia Kazan