If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole schmageggy business of an actor or an actress worthwhile, because you suddenly know that they are… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
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… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
If a play is good and you're effective in it, you suddenly hear a silence that is loud, and that moment makes the whole… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
To me, the theatre - I don't like to say it, but I'll say it - is a temple in a kind of way,… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
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… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
You have a lot of friends who love you dearly and you don't know who they are. — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
