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I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.
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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?
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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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Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
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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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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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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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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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So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
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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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For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
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I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
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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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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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I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.
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About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
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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'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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My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
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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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The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
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I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.
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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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The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.