“I love the idea that I’m the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!”
― Shirley MacLaine
“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Crystals amplify the consciousness.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’ve gotten crankier in my old age.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“We’ve had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Of course I’m schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Women love working together. That’s my experience anyway.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I mean, I’m just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it’s a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn’t even know I wasn’t living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn’t and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Of course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I wasn’t afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“When a child comes in, I believe that it’s a ‘multipersonhood,’ and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Well, success does not mean doing well.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’m an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’d like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I’ve admired him for 35 years. He’s someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I’m actually sleeping with him.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Sex is hardly ever just about sex.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t do like diva trips and stuff.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t feel competitive.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“If they would teach us from the time we’re little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn’t fight so much.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I can’t advise any of the young ones, because I don’t know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything – there’s a real problem.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I live in too many cities.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t know why anybody would be in awe of me.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I’m used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“People think I’m nuts.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it’s the director’s job to make you more miserable and get a good take.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’m a peaceful person once work ethic is established.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t like to socialise much.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I can’t give up my own identity.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t think you go out of style when you’re living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’m not interested in fame at all.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it’s not real at all.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I never would have given up my work to stay home.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’ve been through so much of my own self-search that I’m not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“The more I’ve learned about me, the more I’m interested in others.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I was afraid I would get the Oscar for ‘Irma La Douce’ because it was popular. But I didn’t want to because I didn’t really think it was that good.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I make my mistakes in public.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can’t.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I don’t like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’m not one for wardrobe.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Things are done according to money these days.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Movie makers now choose profit over vision.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“We need proof in our society.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“It’s a big deal for me to say I’m over politics.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Being old is such a treat!”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or ‘What size do you wear?’ or ‘Who’s your couturier?’ They ask me about really deep things and I love that.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I’d like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don’t see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I can be a lazy slob.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man’s baggage is more of a trek than I’d like to take right now.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.”
― Shirley MacLaine
“Maybe I’m a dream artist, as they call it.”
― Shirley MacLaine
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