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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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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