Shelley Winters



Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress.

Quotes

 * Every now and then, when you're onstage, 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.
 * Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956


 * I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.
 * On the set of  (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2


 * I think the purpose of the actor is to illuminate the human condition. When you go to a film and you see a good actor, it's because you identify with them—you know what they're feeling—and a good actor draws, I believe, from their own experience. And when it's true for him, it's true for you. If a director imposes a performance or you try to mimic somebody, it can be funny or brilliant, but it isn't moving.
 * On acting, interview with Skip E. Lowe (1989)

Attributed

 * A pretty face is a passport.
 * Quoted by Julie Burchill, Sex & sensibility (1992), p. 55