Shelley Duvall
Shelley Duvall
Shelley Alexis Duvall is an American actress, producer, writer, singer and comedian. She began her career in various Robert Altman films in the 1970s, including Brewster McCloud, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Thieves Like Us, Nashville, and 3 Women, which won her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA nomination for Best Actress. Duvall had a supporting role in Annie Hallbefore starring in lead roles in Popeyeand The Shining...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth7 July 1949
CityHouston, TX
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And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
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Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven't finished making them yet?
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There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
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Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
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For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
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You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself - physically and emotionally - into a woman who's totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.
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I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.
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When I'd finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.
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But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
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But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven years - was taught to me by Robert Altman
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Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning
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Theres nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
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In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot
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Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same