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Shelley Duvall
July 7, 1949 -
Nationality: American
Category: Actress
Subcategory: American Actress

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.

   

I'm not afraid of aging.

   

I like to pick my own vegetables.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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.

   

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

   

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

   

You don't direct ostriches, you herd them.

   

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

   

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

   

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

   

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?

   

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 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.

   

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.

   

There's 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.

   

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.

   

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