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

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.

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.

However expressive, symbols can never be the things they stand for.

I like to visit New York but I wouldn't live there if you gave it to me.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences.

Going to set was always a great release.

I tell my children to avoid theatre and go into cinema and TV.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Some people are going to have to die or leave.

This outward spring and garden are a reflection of the inward garden.

When the Mass is being celebrated, the sanctuary is filled with countless angels, who adore the Divine Victim immolated on the altar.

There's no reason why you can't deliver a grammar-school curriculum to an all-ability intake.