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

"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."

"Acting... was the biggest charge I ever had. What other artist has it so good? Approval so quick?"

"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."

"The Communists automatically violated the daily practices of democracy to which I was accustomed."

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

"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."
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