Shelley Winters was an outspoken woman. Here are some quotes by her and about her marriages.
Shelley, about marriage: "In Hollywood, all the marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems."
Source: Creative Quotations
Shelley, about her marriages: "All my men cheated on me and that's kinda sad. All I ever got out of marriage, except my daughter, was some jewelery and a recipe for ravioli."
Source: Telegraph
Shelley, about men: "The best way to find out about a man is to have lunch with his ex-wife."
Source: IMDB.com
Shelley, about the diamond she wore on her left hand: "This was from my first husband. He gave me this on a flight to Cleveland in the early '40s. I'd never been on an airplane. I've had it all this time...He hated Hollywood. We were at Ciro's one night and somebody said, 'Capt. Winters, can you come over here?' I looked at his face and knew it was over."
Source: Ma Parker
Shelley, on her marriage to Vittorio: "I don't know how actors stay married when they're both working. I tried it three times. When I married Vittorio, he thought we were going to live in Italy, and I never allowed myself to know that he thought that. I remember when he was doing a picture with Elizabeth Taylor at MGM [Rhapsody, 1954], he would get tired at four o'clock and forget his English. One day, we were sitting down having dinner - I had our six-month-old daughter on my knee - and he said, "This is too difficult. We go home after this picture." I looked at him and said, "But we are home." And he said, "No, no! Home is Rome." I was stunned. So the divorce wasn't that mysterious, but perhaps the marriage was."
Source: Interview, May 1996 v26 n5 p104(7) - "A Winters Tale" by Graham Fuller
Shelley, looking back on her choices: "I wish I had a companion now. I wish I had married someone not in show business. All those actresses like Jane Russell and Irene Dunne, who married doctors, they knew what they were doing. But I was attracted to people who were in the same business. Then when one career goes up and one goes down."
Source: Ma Parker
Shelley, about Burt Lancaster: "This chance meeting proved to be the beginning of a long but painful romance. Despite the immediate and powerful chemistry between us, the love and the friendship, some wise part of me knew that he would never abandon his children while they were young and needed him."
Source: Boston.com
