Shelley Duvall Speaks

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

And of course, now that Bernard and I have found each other forever, we're determined to create our own little world in order to survive the one we're in.
Shelley Duvall

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.
Shelley Duvall

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?
Shelley Duvall

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

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.
Shelley Duvall

For a while we lived in a tent we'd pitched inside his parents' house and we slept on pillows.
Shelley Duvall

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

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.
Shelley Duvall

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

I like to pick my own vegetables.
Shelley Duvall

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.
Shelley Duvall

I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson.
Shelley Duvall

I'm not afraid of aging.
Shelley Duvall

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Shelley Duvall

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

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

There's nothing that can beat the feeling of doing a movie or a TV show that makes everyone feel good.
Shelley Duvall

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

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

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.
Shelley Duvall

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.
Shelley Duvall

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.
Shelley Duvall