Quotes from Shelley Winters

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.

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

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.

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

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

Where do you go to get anorexia?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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