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
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
sometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
Now that I'm over sixty, I'm veering toward respectability.
The trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
I was so cold I almost got married.
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.
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.
I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are.
All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.
I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
It was so cold I almost got married.