Quotes by Marie Windsor

• Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
• It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.
• Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
• My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
• 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.
• 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.
• So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
• 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?
• The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
• The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
• This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
• This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
• I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.
• In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
• I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
• 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.
• But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
• Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
• For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
• I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.
• I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
• I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
• I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
• I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
• About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
• I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
• 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.
• For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.