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Shelley Winters was an American actress whose career spanned almost six decades.

She appeared in numerous films, and won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue , and received nominations for A Place in the Sun and The Poseidon Adventure . Other roles Winters appeared in include A Double Life , The Night of the Hunter , Lolita , Alfie , and Pete's Dragon .

In addition to film, Winters also appeared in television, including a years-long tenure on the sitcom Roseanne, and also authored three autobiographical books. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. August 1920 – 14. January 2006
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Famous Shelley Winters Quotes

“Every now and then, when you're onstage, 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.”

Shelley Winters

Theatre Arts magazine, June 1956 http://books.google.com/books?id=9ENNAAAAYAAJ

“I think the purpose of the actor is to illuminate the human condition. When you go to a film and you see a good actor, it's because you identify with them—you know what they're feeling—and a good actor draws, I believe, from their own experience. And when it's true for him, it's true for you. If a director imposes a performance or you try to mimic somebody, it can be funny or brilliant, but it isn't moving.”

Shelley Winters

On acting, interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWftZbSG-lY with Skip E. Lowe (1989)

“A pretty face is a passport.”

Shelley Winters

Quoted by Julie Burchill, Sex & sensibility (1992), p. 55
Attributed

“I've been away from Hollywood so long, I feel like a spider on a wedding cake.”

Shelley Winters

On the set of Let No Man Write My Epitaph (1960), as quoted in "Rambling Reporter" by Mike Connolly, Hollywood Reporter (December 10, 1958), p. 2

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