Shelley Winters Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Where do you go to get anorexia?

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