Quotes
How could I be bitter when I've loved every bit of what I have been doing in films?!
He later taught me to twirl guns, and I did a lot of stunt work in this western that normally an actress simply would not do.
Gig was bubbly... warm... humorous... kind of a funny, even silly, guy with a big heart. But he only seemed like a free soul... even then I suspected that somewhere inside of himself, he felt very lost.
For many years my inherited arthritis had given me problems.
For instance, it was very rare for anyone there with dogs to allow them into the house.
Eventually, with the help of our nurses, I could stand for a few minutes and take a few steps with a walker and then a cane... and what a great moment it was when I was able to drive and go to the market!
Elisha Cook was a darling, and full of the devil. A wired - up little fellow who was always busy, busy, busy.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
But in the earlier days, studios and agents insisted you change your name even if it wasn't too long for a marquee.
But I've often questioned my decision to have my nose reshaped... I thought perhaps I'd be offered more sympathetic roles if this feature was less acquiline.
But he was still in love with his first wife, so we rarely lived together. I soon sought and obtained an annulment and decided to really concentrate on my work.
Bill Elliott saw the test I'd made as well as the George Raft film and when he learned I was a horsewoman, he fought with the studio to use me instead of one of their contract players.
And I've got it all - except satisfaction in my work, but that's only because I don't work often enough to suit me.
After surgery and my time in intensive care, I was deposited in my room and I realized I was without back pain, but that I couldn't move my legs.
After a few basic questions, several doctors asked me to move my foot, pointing it up toward the ceiling. To their disappointment and my horror, I couldn't even move my toes.
About that time, stronger features became fashionable on the screen.
When writers want to work with fairy tale material, I ask them to look beyond the Disney versions and beyond the Victorian versions-to go back to the older fairy tales, with all their complexities. Then, when you create your art, use those as your tools, and not Walt Disney imagery.
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
When I started in the business, there was a thing called adult fantasy, but nobody quite knew what it was, and most publishers didn't have an adult fantasy list. They had science fiction lists, which they stuck a little bit of fantasy into.
What I look for is a story I remember after I've read it... and one with an excellent mastery of the writing craft.