Marie Windsor Quotes

#1. The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.

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#2. Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.

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#3. Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

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#4. Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

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#5. For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

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#6. I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.

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#7. This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

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#8. The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.

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#9. My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

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#10. I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

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#11. I'd say my happiest moment as an actress came when I learned I'd won the Look Magazine Best Supporting Actress Award for 1956 in The Killing.

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#12. But painting can be too lonely ... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

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#13. Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well?

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#14. So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

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#15. I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

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#16. I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

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#17. Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this.

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#18. I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

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#19. I'm 5 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield.

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#20. About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

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#21. I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

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#22. This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

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#23. I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

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#24. In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

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#25. I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.

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#26. For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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#27. It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

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