Marie Windsor Quotes

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

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• This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.

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

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

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• 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?

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I’d been trying for all of the eight years we’d been married to have a child, and finally I did.

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• I’d also say having Jack’s son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

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

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

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

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

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Marie Windsor (27)

Birth:	11th December, 1919
Death:	10th December, 2000
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

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