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Quotes
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"I suppose
the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy.
Of course playright Bob Anderson didn't know that, but he wrote
Laura Reynolds and Laura Reynolds happened to be me. It was the
coming together of a part and an actress - the same attitude to
life, a certain shyness in life, a deep compassion for people
who are being persecuted for anything." (Quoted from an interview
with The Christian Science Monitor, 10/17/78)
"I came
over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do
was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative".
"I am
really rather like a beautiful Jersey cow, I have the same pathetic
droop to the corners of my eyes."
"Fred
Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners
really brings out of me, in a completely different way, an awful
lot that perhaps I'd never have the courage to lay bare, to open
up. He just knows how to get you to do it, to bring out some inner
quality." (Quoted from an interview with The Times,
9/2/72)
"For
Karen Holmes (in From Here to Eternity), I studied voice
for three months to get rid of my English accent. I changed my
hair to blonde. I knew I could be sexy if I had to." (Quoted
from an interview with The New York Daily Mirror, 11/8/53)
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