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" About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen. "
Features
Screen
Stronger
" But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. "
Lonely
Life
Work
" Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy. "
Cook
Busy
Always
" For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house. "
Rare
Very
Allow
" For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems. "
Years
Problems
Me
" I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road. "
Anybody
Saying
Show
" I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick. "
Jack
Living
Year
" I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did. "
Finally
Been
Child
" I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! "
Film
Doing
Lighting
" 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. "
Best
Actress
Say
" I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on. "
Man
More
Know
" I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. "
Raft
Tango
Shoes
" I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful. "
Myself
Never
Great
" 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. "
Stars
Two
Life
" In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it. "
Back
Go
Just
" I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. "
Plastic
Nose
Plastic Surgery
" Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that. "
Without
Who
Most
" My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this. "
High
Correct
Sometimes
" 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. "
Late
More
Who
" 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. "
Start
Walk
Together
" So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work. "
Work
Said
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? "
Chaos
Well
Way
" The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes. "
Two
Eyelashes
Did
" The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day. "
Very
Were
Me
" This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. "
Know
More
Rewards
" This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted. "
Classic
Prepared
Much
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