Marie Windsor Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

I’m 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn’t mind that I was taller than they – George Raft and John Garfield

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.

I didn’t know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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