There`s nothing wrong with being an actor, if that`s what a man wants. But there`s everything wrong with achieving an exalted status simply because one photographs well and is able to handle dialogue."
[on director Stanley Kubrick] By the time of "Dr. Strangelove" he had become very human -- maybe it was the power that came with successes like "Lolita" -- for he is now very strong. My first day was torture. I was nervous, scared, did 48 takes. I expecte...
On confessing his Communist ties before Congress: "I don`t think you have the foggiest notion of the contempt I have had for myself since the day I did that thing." (and years later:) "It`s the one thing in my life that I`m categorically ashamed of."