Marie Windsor Quotes

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

Marie Windsor

#2. 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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#3. Plastic shoes are to the shoe world what fast food is to fine cuisine.

Mimi Pond

#4. That would be getting up at 5 am ... I don't understand why film's shoot such brutal hours. I think it'd be worth it to not be so strictly cost-effective and have an 8 hour day. The film's would benefit in the end.

Terry Zwigoff

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

Marie Windsor

#6. 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.

Marie Windsor

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

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

Marie Windsor

#9. Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

Noam Chomsky

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

Marie Windsor

#11. You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

Rebecca West

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

Marie Windsor

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

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#15. The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards - to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#16. A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

Hope Mirrlees

#17. Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

Paul Valery

#18. Africa gives you the knowledge that man is a small creature, among other creatures, in a large landscape.

Doris Lessing

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

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

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#21. The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

Emily Carr

#22. Take away the stories of Jesus's birth, and all you lose is four chapters of the Gospels. Take away the resurrection and you lose the entire New Testament, and most of the second-century fathers as well.

N. T. Wright

#23. 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.

Marie Windsor

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

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

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

Marie Windsor

#29. To create emptiness in your heart, let it go with love and fill it with infinite love.

Debasish Mridha

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

Marie Windsor

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

Marie Windsor

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

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#33. I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

Kat Dennings

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

Marie Windsor

#35. 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.

Marie Windsor

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

Marie Windsor

#37. The WELLians were learning how to turn their private experiences into a public commodity.

Lee Siegel

#38. 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?

Marie Windsor

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

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#40. People are more sophisticated in the way they go about dealing with the press.

Bob Schieffer

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

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