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Shelley Winters
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“It was so cold I almost got married.”
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“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It is 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.”
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“Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.”
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“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.”
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“... everything in the human being creates.”
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“... art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.”
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“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.”
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“... sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.”
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“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.”
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“Stardom can be very destructive — particularly if you believe in it.”
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“You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.”
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“In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.”
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“We had a lot in common, I loved him and he loved him.”
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“Nudity on stage? I think it's disgusting. But if I were twenty-two with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.”
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“The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.”
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“I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.”
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“I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.”
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“I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.”
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“Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues.”
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“Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.”
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“Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.”
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“All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.”
Shelley Winters, U.S. actor
(1920 - 2006)
Real name: Shirley Shrift.