All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.
– Shelley Winters
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.
– Shelley Winters
He had a quality of sexual lightning.
– Shelley Winters
I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.
– Shelley Winters
I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.
– Shelley Winters
I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.
– Shelley Winters
Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability.
– Shelley Winters
Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
– Shelley Winters
Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.
– Shelley Winters
Where do you go to get anorexia?
– Shelley Winters
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.