Shelley Winters
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"Shelley Winters" was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959 film)/The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue, and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (film)/A Place in the Sun (Academy Award for Best Actress/Best Actress) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)/The Poseidon Adventure (Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress/Best Supporting Actress). She also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita (1962 film)/Lolita, The Night of the Hunter (film)/The Night of the Hunter and Alfie (1966 film)/Alfie.

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I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.

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Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.

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I have bursts of being a lady, but it doesn't last long.

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All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

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Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they're gone.

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Over the past few days, she has become much stronger, and Shelley is nearly back to her normal self.

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I was so cold the other day, I almost got married.

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I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

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