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

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.

I have defended the interests of France at the G8 in Washington; afterwards I was at Chicago to announce the withdrawal of French troops from Afghanistan; I have participated in two European summits, so I have fully respected the engagements I made to the French.

Scarce any problem will appear more hard and difficult, than that of determining the distance of the Sun from the Earth very near the truth: but even this... will without much labour be effected.

My mum used to think it was the pill that made you gay. There was too much estrogen in the water, and people started taking the pill in the '60s, and it made everybody gay.

Inevitably, considerations of God in what otherwise intend to be mass entertainments come down to the same thing they come down to in any context, which is a consideration of humanity.

I'm making 20 times more with Vessel for doing the same amount of work, if not less, than with YouTube.

In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

Comrades - We are living in momentous times.

May God preserve you and watch over you.

Most people have an aversion to risk, my college economics professor told me. Which means they have to be rewarded to take on that risk. The higher the risk, the higher the possible payout has to be for people to jump.

The greatest job creation is driven by entrepreneurs and young businesses, so they merit special attention.

Supporting characters add depth to a story, and great actors leave their imprint with the audience.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

I am most interested in people and the human form.

I like for people to have fun and that comes out in the music.

The voices of moral authority in the theatre demanded only punctuality and physical performance. In the light of continuing pressure and stress, the occasional lip service paid to moderation was meaningless. Starvation and poisoning were not excesses, but measures taken to stay within the norm.

I represented Wall Street, as a senator from New York, and I went to Wall Street in December of 2007 - before the big crash that we had - I basically said, 'Cut it out! Quit foreclosing on homes! Quit engaging in these kinds of speculative behaviors.'

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to see yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.

The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.

Personal branding is about figuring who you are and what turns you on and then monetising it