Shelley Winters famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Lunch #Wife #Funny Marriage
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

#Religious #Retirement #Patriotic
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
-- Shelley Winters

#Funny Inspirational #Humorous #Weight Loss
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
-- Shelley Winters

#Love #Security #Extraordinary
I don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
-- Shelley Winters

#Party #Jockeys #Want
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
-- Shelley Winters

#Drinking #Long #Lasts
Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.
-- Shelley Winters

#Believe #Fame #Stardom
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
-- Shelley Winters

#Tears #Stronger #Comedy
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

#Theatre #Way #Temples
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

#Play #Silence #Actors
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
-- Shelley Winters

#Stars #Males #Female
Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.
-- Shelley Winters

#Change For The Better #Life Is #Process
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.
-- Shelley Winters

#Love You #Lots Of Friends
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
-- Shelley Winters

#Hate #Age #I Hate
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

#Arms #Actors #Wonderful
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

#Art #Maturity #People
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

#Stars #Personality #Acting
I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
-- Shelley Winters

#Winter #England #Married
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
-- Shelley Winters

#Aging #Sixty #Respectability
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
-- Shelley Winters

#Matter #Standards #Indifferent
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
-- Shelley Winters

#Girl #Independent #Men
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

#Mean #Loss #Player
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
-- Shelley Winters

#Acting #Tissues #Gone
Where do you go to get anorexia?
-- Shelley Winters

#Food #Anorexia
IÂ was so cold I almost got married.
-- Shelley Winters

#Married #Cold
We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.
-- Shelley Winters

#Love You #Common

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