Shelley Winters Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Where do you go to get anorexia?”

“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 was so cold the other day, I almost got married.”

“Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.”