Shirley Knight quotes:

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

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!

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

The other death for an actor is comparing yourself to other people: Forget someone else's path. Concentrate on your path. Otherwise, you get lost, and if you don't have joy in the work, forget it.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.

This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me.

The only people you can really share certain things with in secret are your girlfriends.

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.

There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

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 moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.