The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

Rod Steiger

[And despite the passage of time, the award has divided the industry.] With Kazan, ... I'm angry because this man was very well off in the theater financially. I could understand -- even though I wouldn't like it -- a man panicking because he doesn't have the money to educate or feed his kids and in a moment of animalistic fear said, 'Him, John or Bill.'

Rod Steiger