Shirley Knight Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.”

“There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.”

“There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.”

“I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.”

“I just let the character speak to me and things appear.”

“I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.”

“It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.”

“They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!”

“I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.”

“When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.”