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.
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful.
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
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.
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.
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
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'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
I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.
The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
