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 human beings like you, who are receiving something from you.
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 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 Winters