Shelley Duvall

I don't know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a…

— Shelley Duvall

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken…

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

But most of what I've learned about acting - and a lot of what I've learned about life in the past seven…

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

I'm not afraid of aging.

— Shelley Duvall

Somewhere along the line, Bob said I'd better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had…

— 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…

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

I like to pick my own vegetables.

— Shelley Duvall

Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell…

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

You think he's going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you've changed yourself…

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall

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

— Shelley Duvall