Words matter. These are the best Shelley Duvall Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
Acting in films hasn’t changed me. I feel exactly the same.
I suppose I learned organization from Altman.
You don’t direct ostriches, you herd them.
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.
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring.
I’m one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.
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?
There’s nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.
I’m not afraid of aging.
I like to pick my own vegetables.
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.
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A’s and daydreamed a lot.
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.
We live from day to day and get as much joy out of experiencing as we can.
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.
For a while we lived in a tent we’d pitched inside his parents’ house and we slept on pillows.
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.
Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.
But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
The world doesn’t end just because one thing goes wrong.
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses ’em – sometimes just for the hell of it.
Pigs are not that dirty. And they’re smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
