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 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.

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

The best of a human being is still a human being.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Swiftly the head mass becomes an enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one...

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.

Life is amazing, life is odd. Life is not what you expected it to be. Things happen... Growing up takes longer than you think.

When man, governed by reasonable laws, enjoys his natural freedom, let him despise woman, if she do not share it with him.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

Atheism is not just about not believing there is a God, but on the assumption that there is one, what kind of God is he?

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.