My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.
[on reaching her centenary] "Who wants to be 100?"
[speaking at age 100] "I wouldn't mind being dead - it would be something new."
I don't want to remember yesterday! It's all I can do to remember today!
On appearing in the Mel Brooks classic The Producers (1968): "Oh, that dreadful picture. I can't bear to watch it, even on a small television. I must have needed the money - living in Hollywood weakens one's motives. It reminds me of the saying that nobody ever went broke underestimating the American public's taste".
Her first husband, Arthur Chesney, was the brother of Edmund Gwenn
Winwood's best friend from the 1920's until her death in the 1960's was Tallulah Bankhead.
George Cukor died only hours after sending her a telegram for her 100th birthday.
At the time of her death (at age 101) she was the all-time oldest member of the Screen Actor's Guild.
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