Marie Windsor quotes:

I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

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

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.

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

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

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

Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.

Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.

I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959.

This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted.

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?

My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.

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.

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.

So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.

But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.

I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.

The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.