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Shirley Knight

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


— Shirley Knight


#human #i #learning #one-woman #show

Film actors reach a certain level, but they don't get beyond it unless they work in the theater.


— Shirley Knight


#certain #certain level #film #film actors #get

I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love.


— Shirley Knight


#endless #film #i #like #love

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


— Shirley Knight


#film #first #five #gates #got

I just let the character speak to me and things appear.


— Shirley Knight


#character #i #just #me #speak

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


— Shirley Knight


#dead #decided #films #i #la

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


— Shirley Knight


#her #i #individual #kept #photographs

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.


— Shirley Knight


#actor #film #film actor #hopkins #tony

Men are allowed to get older and women are not.


— Shirley Knight


#get #men #older #women #women are

My acting career helped pull me through the rough times.


— Shirley Knight


#career #helped #me #pull #rough






About Shirley Knight

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D. Career
Knight's feature films include The Group (1966) The Dutchman (1966) Petulia (1968) The Rain People (1969) and As Good as It Gets (1997) and Elevator (2011) in which Shirley Knight plays one of several people trapped in a Wall Street elevator with a bomber. Newcomb in twenty of the thirty-nine episodes of the NBC western television series Buckskin with Tom Nolan Sally Brophy and Mike Road.

She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird of Youth eight times for Emmy Awards (winning three) and has also netted a Golden Globe and Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her role in the 1967 film Dutchman.

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