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

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.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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.

It is not the presence of despair that ails you, but the absence of hope.

Vision transforms hope into committed action and passion transforms wants into new realities.

In 2015 tattoos are more permanent than marriages

It is a commonplace of all religious thought, even the most primitive, that the man seeking visions and insight must go apart from his fellows and love for a time in the wilderness.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

Nobody ever recommended a dictatorship aiming at ends other than those he himself approved. He who advocates dictatorship always advocates the unrestricted rule of his own will

Mentorship is the key to extraordinary success.

Young men and fools sometimes bear pain they do not have to as a badge of their pride. Or their foolishness.

The job of president is to motivate, to inspire, to be side by side with people making sure that they develop all their capacities and that I remove all the obstacles they have to grow by themselves.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.