Shelley Duvall Quotes

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

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

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

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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