Words matter. These are the best Shirley MacLaine Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
I’m not interested in fame at all.
I’m not one for wardrobe.
People think I’m nuts.
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.
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.
I love the idea that I’m the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
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.
It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
I don’t know why anybody would be in awe of me.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
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.
I’ve gotten crankier in my old age.
We need proof in our society.
Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.
Women love working together. That’s my experience anyway.
I never would have given up my work to stay home.
The more I’ve learned about me, the more I’m interested in others.
I live in too many cities.
I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
Of course, we’re all a mass of contradictions.
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.
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.
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
I don’t have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.
I don’t like to socialise much.
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.
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.
I’m a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
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.
I don’t do like diva trips and stuff.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.
The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
I can be a lazy slob.
I don’t feel competitive.
I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
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.
Things are done according to money these days.
I don’t like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.
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.
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.
Being old is such a treat!
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.
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.
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.
I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
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.
I’m an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.