Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Shelley Winters

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Shelley Winters was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades. She appeared in numerous films. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). In addition to film, Winters appeared in television, including a tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and wrote three autobiographical books.

American - Actress | August 18, 1920 - January 14, 2006

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Where do you go to get anorexia?

Shelley Winters

It was so cold I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

Shelley Winters

Every now and then, when you're on stage, 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 not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

Shelley Winters

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

Shelley Winters

I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

Shelley Winters

Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.

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 was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

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

Shelley Winters

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

Shelley Winters

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

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

I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.

Shelley Winters

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

Shelley Winters

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

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

Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.

Shelley Winters

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

Shelley Winters

We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.

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

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

Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.

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

I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.

Shelley Winters

I was so cold I almost got married.

Shelley Winters

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

Shelley Winters

I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World

Shelley Winters

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

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

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

Shelley Winters

Top 32 Quotes & Sayings by Shelley Winters

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