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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

" Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy. "

" 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? "

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