We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Shelley Duvall Quotes. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
I like to pick my own vegetables.
Acting in films hasn’t changed me. I feel exactly the same.
Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs.
You think he’s going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you’ve changed yourself – physically and emotionally – into a woman who’s totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place.
Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring.
For a while we lived in a tent we’d pitched inside his parents’ house and we slept on pillows.
I don’t know if I was a desirable person, not just physically but emotionally and mentally and intellectually. I still have a long way go and a lot to learn, but I’m on my way, I don’t think I’m terribly attractive, but I’m comfortable with my looks.
I suppose I learned organization from Altman.
I’m one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist.
But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.
Somewhere along the line, Bob said I’d better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career.
In Houston everyone owns guns and uses ’em – sometimes just for the hell of it.
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.
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.
Bernard and I intend doing a lot with our lives and that includes actively helping other people. But how can we tell you our plans when we haven’t finished making them yet?
There’s nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
The world doesn’t end just because one thing goes wrong.
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.
Pigs are not that dirty. And they’re smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.
When I’d finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston.
