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.

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

To keep the business going, you gotta keep it boomin'.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.