Shelley Duvall

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

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.

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

I'm not afraid of wanting money at all. Money will give me more power to do things that are truer to my spirit than what I'm already doing.

When you hit your 40s, you begin to take notice of the effects of aging because people that you know begin to die of heart attacks and tumors, so we take notice of the effects of aging.