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Marie Windsor
American
Actress
About the author
Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Fight
It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Walking
Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Actors
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
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.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Years
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.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Time
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Acting
#Work
#Being
#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?
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Order
#Chaos
The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Day
#Animals
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Being
This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Being
#Example
I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Living
#Son
In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Film
#Thought
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.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Life
#Stars
#Mind
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Life
#People
#Work
#Being
#Painting
#Lonely
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Devil
For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Dogs
I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Saying
#Road
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Years
#Man
#Quiet
I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Dance
#Ballet
I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Thought
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Time
I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Years
#Trying
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.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Killing
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
Marie Windsor,
American
Actress
#Problems
#Years