Marie Windsor quotes

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

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

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

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For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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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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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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I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! Even Kubrick, in 1955 during filming of The Killing, never used the term film noir to my knowledge.

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My personal happiness is much more important than my career, my primary aim is to have a happy home life. Those great ladies the silver screen have wanted what I've been able to get, but they've not been able to give up enough to get it.

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Though I'm sure Stanley Kubrick was full of energy, he didn't seem like it because he was so quiet and he moved very calculatingly–rather slow physically. (Marie Windsor)

Sure I'm sad I've never made it to being a big superstar, but I feel absolutely no bitterness. I came out of a town with 250 people and what I've done is extraordinary.

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

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

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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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Occupation: American Actress
Born: December 11, 1919
Died: December 10, 2000
Quotes count: 31

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