Knight, Shirley Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Mercy

  2014, role: actress , character name: Mercy
• Play in Full Screen Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age

  2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Geraldine Page: Stages of a Dream

  2014, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Periphery

  2014, role: actress , character name: Leanne Cross
• Play in Full Screen Redwood Highway

  2013, role: actress , character name: Marie Vaughn
• Play in Full Screen Elevator

  2011, role: actress , character name: Jane Redding
• Play in Full Screen The Melancholy Fantastic

  2011, role: actress , character name: Mor
• Play in Full Screen Our Idiot Brother

  2011, role: actress , character name: Ilene
• Play in Full Screen Fatten Her

  2011, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Finkelstein
• Play in Full Screen Ode: The Movie

  2010, role: actress , character name: Marny
• Play in Full Screen The Hunt

  2010, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Hodge
• Play in Full Screen Listen to Your Heart

  2010, role: actress , character name: Grandma Sam
• Play in Full Screen Paul Blart: Mall Cop

  2009, role: actress , character name: Mom
• Play in Full Screen The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

  2009, role: actress , character name: Dot Nadeau
• Play in Full Screen The Other Side of the Tracks

  2008, role: actress , character name: Helen
• Play in Full Screen Not Fade Away

  2008, role: actress , character name: Diane
• Play in Full Screen Desperate Housewives Special: All the Juicy Details

  2006, role: actress , character name: Phyllis Van De Kamp
• Play in Full Screen Sweet Bird of Youth: Chasing Time

  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Thanks to Gravity

  2006, role: actress , character name: Lea
• Play in Full Screen Grandma's Boy

  2006, role: actress , character name: Bea
• Play in Full Screen Open Window

  2006, role: actress , character name: Dr. Ann Monohan
• Play in Full Screen Locked In

  2005, role: actress , character name: Marianne
• Play in Full Screen To Lie in Green Pastures

  2005, role: actress , character name: Peggy
• Play in Full Screen The Needs of Kim Stanley

  2005, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Sexual Life

  2005, role: actress , character name: Joanna
• Play in Full Screen Sudbury

  2004, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Mrs. Ashboro's Cat

  2004, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Ashboro
• Play in Full Screen The Dan Show

  2003, role: actress , character name: Kitty Kennedy
• Play in Full Screen Fly Cherry

  2003, role: actress , character name: Miss Christina
• Play in Full Screen A House on a Hill

  2003, role: actress , character name: Mercedes Mayfield
• Play in Full Screen The Salton Sea

  2002, role: actress , character name: Nancy Plummer
• Play in Full Screen Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

  2002, role: actress , character name: Necie Rose Kelleher
• Play in Full Screen Tibet: Cry of the Snow Lion

  2002, role: actress , character name: Tibetan Voiceovers
• Play in Full Screen P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!

  2002, role: actress , character name: Aunt Claire
• Play in Full Screen Shadow Realm

  2002, role: actress , character name: Mrs. Finch
• Play in Full Screen My Louisiana Sky

  2001, role: actress , character name: Jewel Ramsey
• Play in Full Screen Loomis

  2001, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Angel Eyes

  2001, role: actress , character name: Elanora Davis
• Play in Full Screen The Center of the World

  2001, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen 75 Degrees in July

  2000, role: actress , character name: Jo Beth Anderson
• Play in Full Screen Women's Day: The Making of a Bill

  1998, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen The Wedding

  1998, role: actress , character name: Gram
• Play in Full Screen The Man Who Counted

  1998, role: actress , character name: Grace Postlewait
• Play in Full Screen A Father for Brittany

  1998, role: actress , character name: Donna Minkowitz
• Play in Full Screen The 70th Annual Academy Awards

  1998, role: actress , character name: Beverly Connelly
• Play in Full Screen A Marriage of Convenience

  1998, role: actress , character name: Harriet Winslow
• Play in Full Screen Little Boy Blue

  1997, role: actress , character name: Doris Knight
• Play in Full Screen The 51st Annual Tony Awards

  1997, role: actress , character name: Herself - Nominee: Best Leading Actress in a Play
• Play in Full Screen As Good as It Gets

  1997, role: actress , character name: Beverly
• Play in Full Screen Convictions

  1997, role: actress , character name: Margaret

Knight, Shirley Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Commando Mengele

  1987, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Panther Squad

  1984, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen L'oasis des filles perdues

  1981, role: actress , character name: Director
• Play in Full Screen Mondo cannibale

  1980, role: actress , character name: Barbara Shelton

Knight, Shirley Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Great British Striptease

  1980, role: actress , character name: Herself

Famous quotes by Shirley Knight:

"The play is about this woman finding a way to live without having someone to look after her."

"I know that Marcia desperately wants me to come back. We were devising all kinds of scenarios together, like Bree breaks her leg and I would look after her and that would drive her insane."

"I don't think you want her around too often, she kind of takes over,"

"It's so much fun! ... It was very nice of Mr. Cherry [Marc, who created the show] to write that part for me."

"Men are allowed to get older and women are not."

"Everyone has someone in their family who has a drinking problem. I think that's inevitable. Everybody quarrels in a family, and they don't speak to each other for months or years. It's usually always over some little thing. But it really isn't about some little thing, it's about something much deeper."

"As Good As It Gets."

"Hollywood - that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting"

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

"My acting career helped pull me through the rough times."

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

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

"I did the occasional odd film, like Endless Love."

"There's no place to act in Kansas. You're supressed."

"So many directors are solely focused on their own success in Hollywood and multimillion dollar budgets and deals."

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

"This house was our dream-the gardens, the study, even the swimming pool. Even though I can't see John when I wake up in the morning, I can always feel him here with me."

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

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

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