For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

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.

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

You, ” he says, before the door closes all the way. “I often dream of you.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Unforgiveness is the poison you drink every day hoping that the other person will die.

An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.

I'm a really good person. I'm down to earth. I have a big heart. I have feelings. And I'm just like everybody else.

Life is the love that reaches out, building bridges across gulfs of uncertainty to touch hands, hearts, and souls in the experience of union.

To practice Zen or the Martial Arts, you must live intensely, wholeheartedly, without reserve - as if you might die in the next instant

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.

The shortest road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary.