Quotes By Shelley Winters

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

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

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

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

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.

Where do you go to get anorexia?

In Hollywood, all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes the problems.

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

It was so cold I almost got married.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.