 Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy. |
| 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. |
| I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959. |
| I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did. |
| It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again. |
| About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen. |
| This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured. |
| 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. |
| This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted. |
| I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting! |
| So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work. |
| In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it. |
| For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house. |
| Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. |
| I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent. |
| But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work. |
| Some actresses seem to thrive on chaos, and I've often wondered if they felt they had to be that way in order to perform well? |
| The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day. |
| I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road. |
