Shelley Winters movie quotes

“Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife.”
Shelley Winters

“Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.”
Shelley Winters

“We had a lot in common. I loved him and he loved him.”
Shelley Winters

“- Charlotte Haze: Do you believe in God?
- Humbert Humbert: The question is does God believe in me?”
Shelley Winters - Charlotte Haze
James Mason - Prof. Humbert Humbert

“The boy's as stubborn and as mulish as a sheep.”
Shelley Winters - Willa Harper

“I took tennis lessons faithfully twice a week for six years. When I got married, I brought my young husband, Vittorio Gassman, to the Beverly Hills Tennis Club and, although he had been on the Italian Olympic basketball team, he had never held a tennis racket in his hand. The first time we played, he beat me 6-0. I broke my racket and threw it...” (continue)(continue reading)

Shelley Winters

“In Hollywood all marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterward that causes the problems.”
Shelley Winters

“I think nudity onscreen is disgusting, shameful and unpatriotic. But if I were 22, with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive, religious experience.”
Shelley Winters

“My son is alive? Who the fuck did I kill?”
Shelley Winters - Mrs. Motel (The Mother)

“- Dolly Modino: You mustn't skip breakfast. It's the most imp... important meal.
- Victor Modino: I'm fat, ma.
- Dolly Modino: You are not fat, you are not. Honey, you're husky, you're... you're well-built, you're macho!
- Victor Modino: I am fat, ma!”
Shelley Winters - Dolly Modino
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Victor Modino