50 Quotes by Shelley Duvall

I suppose I learned organization from Altman.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

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’m not afraid of aging.

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

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.

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

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.