Marie Windsor Quotes


"It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Walking)

"Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Actors)

"My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this."
- Marie Windsor
"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."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Acting, Years)

"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."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Time)

"So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Work, Acting, Being, Hard work)

"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?"
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Chaos, Order)

"The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes."
- Marie Windsor
"The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Animals, Day)

"This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Being)

"This I regard as a classic example of my not being properly prepared for a part I very much wanted."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Being, Example)

"I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Son, Living)

"In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it."
- Marie Windsor
"I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!"
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Thought, Film)

"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."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Life, Mind, Stars)

"But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Work, People, Life, Being, Lonely, Painting)

"Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Devil)

"For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Dogs)

"I can't remember anybody saying, Let's get this show on the road."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Road, Saying)

"I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Man, Quiet, Years)

"I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Dance, Ballet)

"I knew I had a great figure, but I never regarded myself as beautiful."
- Marie Windsor
"I thought my nose was too prominent so I had this corrected via plastic surgery in 1959."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Thought)

"About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Time)

"I'd been trying for all of the eight years we'd been married to have a child, and finally I did."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Trying, Years)

"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."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Killing)

"For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems."
- Marie Windsor
(Related: Problems, Years)