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

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

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.

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

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

For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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

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

For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.

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

I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road.

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?

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.

The intuitive recognition of the instant, thus reality… is the highest act of wisdom.

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me.

As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.

Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction.

I don't care who you love. If you love this country enough to risk your life for it, you shouldn't have to hide who you are.

The fact that the person who you are sleeping with is also sleeping with another person or other people does not necessarily mean that he or she does not love you. And the fact that you are the only person who someone is sleeping with does not necessarily mean that he or she loves you.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality it takes an awful lot of determination dedication self discipline and effort.

I've sometimes thought that it's only by recalling that desperate devotion my kids once felt for me that I can maintain my own desperate devotion in the face of their adolescent sneering.

Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on 'Saturday Night Live' as the head writer the first year we started it.

Human beings have always been mythmakers.

By 2007, Iraqi society had completely collapsed.

I am utterly opposed to all equivocation or obscure expressions in our public acts. We are bound to say plainly what we mean to say. If we mean negotiation and compromise, let us say it distinctly and plainly instead of sending to the President a resolution on which he may put whatever interpretation he pleases.

Clearly, the works of John Carpenter and Sam Raimi are front and center here. Argento is definitely there. But even stuff like the 'Friday the 13th' movies had quite an influence on me growing up.

I would love to do a record with Usher.

I'm a huge shoe person, and I have lots of shoes.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

I eat hamburgers all the time.