Shelley Winters quotes

Where do you go to get anorexia? (Shelley Winters)
Every now and then, when you're onstage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
Shelley Winters
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.
Shelley Winters
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
Shelley Winters
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
Shelley Winters
I think the purpose of the actor is to illuminate the human condition. When you go to a film and you see a good actor, it's because you identify with them-you know what they're feeling-and a good actor draws, I believe, from their own experience. And when it's true for him, it's true for you. If a director imposes a performance or you try to mimic somebody, it can be funny or brilliant, but it isn't moving.
Shelley Winters
A pretty face is a passport.
Shelley Winters
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
Shelley Winters
It was so cold I almost got married.
Shelley Winters
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long. (Shelley Winters)
I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.
Shelley Winters
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
Shelley Winters
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
Shelley Winters
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
Shelley Winters
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.
Shelley Winters
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
Shelley Winters
Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.
Shelley Winters
Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.
Shelley Winters
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
Shelley Winters
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden. (Shelley Winters)
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
Shelley Winters
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
Shelley Winters
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
Shelley Winters
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way, where human beings go to be elevated.
Shelley Winters