Top 20 Quotes by Shirley Knight

I moved to LA and decided to do films and television, mainly because the theater in New York is totally dead.

The thing that separates a so-so director and a great director is a love and caring for film.

I took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture.

I'm writing a book and working on my one-woman show, Learning To Be Human.

When you're a woman in your 40s, it's not the best time to do films, because there really aren't that many roles. Then you reach 50 and there are more roles again. Mother parts.

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

There's a great difference between being popular and being an artist.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I got an agent and went up for the part of my first film, Five Gates to Hell.