- [on Marilyn Monroe] As near genius as any actress I ever knew.
- [As a perfectionist who strove for naturalism among his actors] When people tell me the direction was wonderful, I know I've failed. The audience should be entranced, hypnotized, transported like children listening to a fairy tale. The individual actor, playwright, or director who breaks the spell by drawing attention to himself and crowing 'See how clever I am!' is a crook.
- Not since Attila the Hun swept across Europe, leaving five hundred years of total blackness, has there been a man like Lee Marvin.
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