Shelley Winters Quotes

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Stardom can be very destructive — particularly if you believe in it.

Shelley Winters
Of her ex-husband:
He would grab me in his arms, hold me close—and tell me how wonderful he was.

Shelley Winters
I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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'm the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman—in other words, a girl who can't get a man.

Shelley Winters
If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.

Shelley Winters
Nudity on the stage? I think it's disgusting, shameful and unpatriotic. But if I were twenty-two with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.

Shelley Winters
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.

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
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.

Shelley Winters
Sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.

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Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.

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The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.

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Art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

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Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.

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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
I think it (nudity on stage) is disgusting and 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