Shirley Maclaine Quotes

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I can't give up my own identity.

I don't feel competitive.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

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Things are done according to money these days.

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.

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.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

Usually I'm right, by the way - so never mind all the other.

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

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.

It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.

I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

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 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.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

I live in too many cities.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

the illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

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 watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.

I make my mistakes in public.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.