Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don’t take yourself seriously, or you’ll become affected, pompous and boring. – Shelley Duvall
Pigs are not that dirty. And they’re smart, strange little creatures. They just need love. – Shelley Duvall
Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes. – Shelley Duvall
Somewhere along the line, Bob said I’d better begin taking this business seriously, because, whether I liked it or not, I had a career. – Shelley Duvall
I’m one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist. – Shelley Duvall
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. – Shelley Duvall
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? – Shelley Duvall
In school the kids thought I was freaky because I made straight A’s and daydreamed a lot. – Shelley Duvall
I was traveling in Europe with Paul and suddenly realized my passport still said I was Mrs. Sampson. – Shelley Duvall
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. – Shelley Duvall
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. – Shelley Duvall
I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend. – Shelley Duvall
You think he’s going to like you better, but then one day you look in the mirror and realize you’ve changed yourself – physically and emotionally – into a woman who’s totally different from the one he was attracted to the first place. – Shelley Duvall
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. – Shelley Duvall
For a while we lived in a tent we’d pitched inside his parents’ house and we slept on pillows. – Shelley Duvall
When I’d finished, everybody said they wanted me for this movie. At first I thought they meant a nudie flick since an awful lot of nudies are made in Houston. – Shelley Duvall
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning. – Shelley Duvall
Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs. – Shelley Duvall
