Shelley Duvall Quotes
"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
(Related: Day, First, Woman)
"The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: End, World, Wrong)
"Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Love)
"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
(Related: Business, Career)
"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
(Related: Life, Work, Events)
"No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Project)
"There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Feeling, Nothing)
"Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Months, Party)
"We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Day, Joy)
"You don't direct ostriches, you herd them."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Ostriches)
"In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Hell, Houston)
"I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Life, People, Artist)
"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
(Related: Thought, First, Houston)
"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
"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
(Related: Now, Order, World)
"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
(Related: Clothes, Pretty, Worth)
"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
(Related: People)
"But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Fantasy)
"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
(Related: Life, Acting, Past, Years)
"In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A's and daydreamed a lot."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Thought, Kids, School)
"Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Needs)
"I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Boyfriend, Film)
"I like to pick my own vegetables."
- Shelley Duvall
"I suppose I learned organization from Altman."
- Shelley Duvall
"I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Europe, Traveling)
"I'm not afraid of aging."
- Shelley Duvall
"Acting in films hasn't changed me. I feel exactly the same."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Acting)
"For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows."
- Shelley Duvall
(Related: Parents)