Shelley Duvall Quotes

I'm not afraid of aging.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

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.

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

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

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

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project.

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

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

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

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

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

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

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.