Acting is like painting ...

Acting is like painting pictures on bathroom tissues. Ten minutes later you throw them away and they are gone.
 Shelley Winters

Quotes from the same author

Every now and then, when you're on stage, you hear the best sound a player can hear. It's a sound you can't get in movies or in television. It is the sound of a wonderful, deep silence that means you've hit them where they live.
 Shelley Winters
I did a picture in England one winter and it was so cold I almost got married.
 Shelley Winters
Acting is the developing of one's own personality, too, you know. That's what the public buys in a star, shall we say, the personality thing.
 Shelley Winters