Shelley Duvall quotes:

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

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I like to pick my own vegetables.

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

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

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

I'm not afraid of aging.

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

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 suppose I learned organization from Altman.

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

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

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

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

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

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

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

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

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