Top 40 Shannen Doherty Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That’s basically all I ask.”

— Shannen Doherty

2. “I was raised to stand up for myself, if I feel I’m in the right. Maybe it would have been best if I’d just gone home with my swollen cheek.”

— Shannen Doherty

3. “If I kind of like a guy, then I’m a fantastic flirt. But with a guy I truly like, I get painfully shy.”

— Shannen Doherty

4. “I have never had anything done. I’ve been asked if I had breast implants. Whether I did or not, it’s nobody’s business but my own.”

— Shannen Doherty

5. “If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?”

— Shannen Doherty

6. “Your life changes. Everything has to be done perfectly, and I didn’t follow that. I lived my life as if I wasn’t in the public eye. I thought, ‘I’m young. I have the right to experience new things, and if I want to go to a bar and get drunk, that’s my prerogative.’”

— Shannen Doherty

7. “I’ve had so much happen, it’s hard to trust people.”

— Shannen Doherty

8. “I’m the person who stops and gives any homeless person any money that they want.”

— Shannen Doherty

9. “I don’t think you should do things in your personal life differently because you’re a role model.”

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10. “I still get nervous on dates. I’ll be sitting at dinner with a guy and I have to excuse myself and go to the bathroom because I can’t breathe.”

— Shannen Doherty

11. “All my fans tell me what a glamorous life I have, but I tell them how hard I work and how many nights I spend alone with my dogs, eating chicken pot pie in my bedroom.”

— Shannen Doherty

12. “If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there’s a point where you go overboard.”

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13. “This is a free country, and nobody should be criticized for their political beliefs. We’re all allowed to have our opinions.”

— Shannen Doherty

14. “It’s better to be the rejecter than the rejectee.”

— Shannen Doherty

15. “I’m not saying that anybody should like me. Give me a chance before you form that opinion.”

— Shannen Doherty

16. “You read stuff about yourself and you think, My God, where are these people coming up with these things? Why am I the one that they’re picking on?”

— Shannen Doherty

17. “I definitely lived my life like I wasn’t in the public eye.”

— Shannen Doherty

18. “Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don’t want to do-that you don’t want to show full breasts or whatever-and there are no arguments about it.”

— Shannen Doherty

19. “Playboy and I have had some talks about doing it and in what manner it would be done. Aaron Spelling did not pay me money not to do it – that’s completely false.”

— Shannen Doherty

20. “I’m from the South. I’m a Southern Baptist. I have a conservative point of view. I’m a Republican.”

— Shannen Doherty

21. “I would say I’m pro-choice only because I don’t feel that it’s right that anybody in this world puts restrictions on anyone.”

— Shannen Doherty

22. “When I was little, my mom told me that if I lied, the devil would visit me in my sleep. To this day, if I tell even the smallest lie, I have bad dreams. Plus, I’m no good at it.”

— Shannen Doherty

23. “I don’t think the Republican Party is against women.”

— Shannen Doherty

24. “That I’m an alcoholic is completely ridiculous.”

— Shannen Doherty

25. “My inner child is not wounded.”

— Shannen Doherty

26. “I’m unbelievably claustrophobic, and I have really bad anxiety. There were a few moment when I was very dramatic and thought, ‘I’m not going to live through this. I’m going to hyperventilate and just die. Right here in jail.’”

— Shannen Doherty

27. “Labels are boring and often have nothing to with the person; it is just the way others perceive you, or choose to perceive you.”

— Shannen Doherty

28. “I prefer cozy and warm to stark and sterile. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to give your place personality.”

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29. “Have you ever felt like a phone call that’s been disconnected?”

— Shannen Doherty

30. “I realize it’s probably best to keep my politics to myself.”

— Shannen Doherty

31. “I did not read Gone with the Wind, although I’ve seen the movie, and I read every book on Margaret Mitchell.”

— Shannen Doherty

32. “I had a wonderful childhood. My parents were a dream to me.”

— Shannen Doherty

33. “I could tell you what my good qualities are. There’s my honesty; I have a very wacky, kind of dry humor that a lot of people don’t get to see.”

— Shannen Doherty

34. “I’m not a violent person and I don’t hit people.”

— Shannen Doherty

35. “I’m a conservative. I was an avid supporter of Ronald Reagan; I thought he was fabulous.”

— Shannen Doherty

36. “I love scars on people. Scars to me are so attractive.”

— Shannen Doherty

37. “I actually wish I had smaller breasts.”

— Shannen Doherty

38. “For a while I couldn’t leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I’d get self-conscious.”

— Shannen Doherty

39. “The lesson that I learned is that you can’t drop everything for one person. I’ve done that and that person has broken up with me, and I’ve had nothing.”

— Shannen Doherty

40. “I can’t stand unpacking.”

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41. “I help relationships come to an end or help them go to the next level. It can be boyfriend or girlfriend, or if you want to quit your job.”

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42. “Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.”

— Shannen Doherty

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43. “There’s not one cast member of 90210 who didn’t throw a tantrum to two themselves.”

— Shannen Doherty

44. “I’d be more than willing to give names and phone numbers of every makeup artist I worked with.”

— Shannen Doherty

45. “Whenever I get frustrated, I tell myself, you could be working at a 7-Eleven right now, so never take for granted what you do for a living.”

— Shannen Doherty

46. “I take on everybody’s problems. I have a very maternal side. I’m basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.”

— Shannen Doherty

47. “I was never hit as a child. I don’t believing in hitting, period.”

— Shannen Doherty

48. “I realize that the majority of people in the entertainment business happen to be Democrats. I have no problem with that. And they should have no problem with the fact that I’m a Republican.”

— Shannen Doherty

49. “That’s something I go through every day – you know – Am I good enough to act?”

— Shannen Doherty