I had to do a tango with Raft and I learned to dance in ballet shoes with my knees bent.

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

In '48 when I left Metro, I tried to go back to radio, but somehow just didn't do well at it.

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

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

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

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