I'm 5 foot 9, and there were two stars in my life who didn't mind that I was taller than they - George Raft and John Garfield

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.

My gratitude to him is as boundless as the Pacific ocean.

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

Appearing on the front page of the New York Times even given the state of papers today is still something that's seen by a lot of people.

The most dangerous tendency of the modern world is the way in which bogus theories are given the force of dogma.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

I love working in Canada. The ovation is great. It makes me feel like I'm the top dog.

Liberty is a slow fruit.

Please don't take a turn to negative town.