39 Quotes by Shirley Knight

They said this is Vanity Fair, and I said, Oh, I already take the magazine. They said Annie Leibovitz wants to take your picture and I thought, How nice!

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I did a whole bunch of really bad movies.

I don't think you want her around too often, she kind of takes over,

My career has been odd in the sense that I did a lot of films early in my career and then for years I only worked in the theater in New York.

The play is about this woman finding a way to live without having someone to look after her.

Everyone has someone in their family who has a drinking problem. I think that's inevitable. Everybody quarrels in a family, and they don't speak to each other for months or years. It's usually always over some little thing. But it really isn't about some little thing, it's about something much deeper.

I instinctively knew that if I only did films I'd probably become a movie star and earn a lot of money but I wouldn't be a great artist.

I know that Marcia desperately wants me to come back. We were devising all kinds of scenarios together, like Bree breaks her leg and I would look after her and that would drive her insane.