I was surprised as anyone when T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets suddenly became symbols of rebellion. In the film there was a scene in which somebody asked my character, Johnny, what I was rebelling against, and I answered 'Whaddya got?' But none of us involved in the picture ever imagined that it would instigate or encourage youthful rebellion.

I have always considered my life a private affair and the business of no one beyond my family and those I love. Except for moral and political issues that arou…

On the day Kazan showed me the completed picture I was so depressed by my performance that I got up and left the screening room.

Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help it, but, it is troubling.

'In general they are intoxicated by the fame of mass culture, a fame which the latter knows how to manipulate; they could just as well get together in clubs fo…

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your cult…

Load up on guns, and bring your friends, it's fun to lose and to pretend, she's over-bored and self-assured, I know I know, a dirty word.