Shelley Winters Quotations

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.

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.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

I was so cold I almost got married.

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.

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

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

Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.

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