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Then I underwent 17 hours of aptitude testng at UCLA and learned that I could have been a mechanic; this certainly was due to helping Dad years earlier, when he worked on cars at his garages and service stations.
The way animals were and are abused appalls me to this very day.
The tests also showed I could have been a painter, an art form I love because it is the most satisfyingly peaceful work I've ever done.
The scene where I took my eyelashes off we did in two takes.
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?
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
Ricky was the kind of kid who wanted up at 4:30 or 5 in the morning, and that did exhaust me!
Regrettably, I do sometimes have to fight a tendency to be bitchy.
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.
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.
Nowadays my real surname, Bertelsen, would have been great, and it certainly fits me more than Windsor.
Not ony was housing under par, but during the shooting, we women had to do a lot of rough stuff such as fighting and wading through swamps.
My present nose contour isn't bad; it's just that I wish I'd been more secure and had accepted myself as I was.
My forehead is sometimes too high, but bangs could correct this.
Most actors are insecure enough already without having a director who adds to that.
Miss Cornell told me I was too young and lacked proper stage diction.
Kubrick had all his shots laid out before he started, all sketched out by his wife, who was quite a good artist.
It finally became clear to me that they had no hopes of my ever walking again.
In the midst of all this, I got pneumonia, followed by an infection they couldn't seem to locate.
In May of '96 I had to take these problems very seriously. I'd had an MRI and had been told at that time that I had a lot of disease in my fourth lumbar.