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

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.

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

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.

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.

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