Shelley Duvall

“I like to pick my own vegetables.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“I'm not afraid of aging.”

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

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

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

“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.”