Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Windsor

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Marie Windsor was an actress known for her femme fatale characters in the classic film noir features Force of Evil, The Narrow Margin and The Killing. Windsor's height created problems for her in scenes with all but the tallest actors. She was the female lead in so many B movies that she became dubbed the "Queen" of the genre.

American - Actress | December 11, 1919 - December 10, 2000

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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I didn't know I was doing film noir, I thought they were detective stories with low lighting!

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

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

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For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.

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

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

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

Marie Windsor

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

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Top 28 Quotes & Sayings by Marie Windsor

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