Shelley Duvall Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

I'm not afraid of aging.

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

Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit

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

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

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

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

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

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

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

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

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

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