SHELLEY WINTERS

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

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

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

Where do you go to get anorexia?

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.

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.

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

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

It was so cold I almost got married.

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

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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