Marc Lawrence(1910-2005)

Columbia Pictures chief Harry Cohn once told Lawrence that Johnny Roselli, a notorious gangster, had said that he was the best hood in films. Lawrence himself was often told by Italian hoods in his native New York that he played them better than anyone else; ironically, Lawrence was Jewish.

[regarding his short-term membership in the Communist party in the 1930s] I went to about five or six meetings. When I got bored at home I'd go to a meeting.