Shelley Winters Quotes
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
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.
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes problems.
