Shelley Duvall Quotes

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.

- Shelley Duvall

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

- Shelley Duvall

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.

- Shelley Duvall

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

- Shelley Duvall

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?

- Shelley Duvall

In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot.

- Shelley Duvall

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

- Shelley Duvall

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.

- Shelley Duvall

In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

- Shelley Duvall

I'm not afraid of aging.

- Shelley Duvall

We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.

- Shelley Duvall

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.

- Shelley Duvall

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.

- Shelley Duvall

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.

- Shelley Duvall

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I'm on my way, I don't think I'm terribly attractive, but I'm comfortable with my looks.

- Shelley Duvall

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.

- Shelley Duvall

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.

- Shelley Duvall

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

- Shelley Duvall

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.

- Shelley Duvall

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

- Shelley Duvall

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

- Shelley Duvall

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.

- Shelley Duvall

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.

- Shelley Duvall

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

- Shelley Duvall

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

- Shelley Duvall

Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same.

- Shelley Duvall

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.

- Shelley Duvall

I like to pick my own vegetables.

- Shelley Duvall