Eva Marie Saint
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"Eva Marie Saint" is an American actress and producer. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). She received Golden Globe Award/Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).

Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (film)/Raintree County (1957), "North by Northwest" (1959), Exodus (1960 film)/Exodus (1960), Grand Prix (1966 film)/Grand Prix (1966), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (film)/Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter's Tale (film)/Winter's Tale (2014).

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As you get older, you're doing different parts, but the young people, like yourself, they keep you excited, because they'll see Waterfront, and they'll want to talk about it.

You know, you do it, and you get paid for it, and you have a wonderful time, then you're on to something else.

What is it like when you see me in all these films and then you meet me? Were you intimidated?

I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.

I tend to love stories about people and not cop shows and violence, special effects. And some of the things I see, I'm not prudish, I'm not Pollyanna, but I thought North by Northwest was as sexy as you can get and we had all our clothes on.

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

He left it to me to create the character. Sometimes he would have a comment, and it was always right on the mark. Hitchcock worked the same way.