Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winterswas an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and received nominations for A Place in the Sunand The Poseidon Adventure. She also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, Next Stop, Greenwich Village,...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth18 August 1920
CitySt. Louis, MO
CountryUnited States of America
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
Good, bad, or indifferent - it doesn't matter, just work.
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
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.
Life is a constant process of change, for better or worse.
I'm just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
Stardom can be very destructive - particularly if you believe in it.
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 don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.