Security is when I'm very much in love with somebody extraordinary who loves me back.
Shelley WintersI 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.
Shelley WintersIf 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 human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.
Shelley WintersActing is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.
Shelley WintersI don't want to smoke cigars or go to stag parties, wear jockey shorts or pick up the check.
Shelley Winterssometimes in comedy you can make the audience feel poignancy stronger than you can with tears or anguish.
Shelley WintersI am the modern, intelligent, independent-type woman. In other words, a girl who can not get a man.
Shelley WintersThe trouble with marrying an actor is they grab you in their arms, hold you close and tell you how wonderful they are.
Shelley WintersI hate to tell you how old I am, but I reached the age of consent 75,000 consents ago.
Shelley WintersIn those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.
Shelley WintersEvery 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