Quotes By 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.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

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

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.

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

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

People think I'm nuts.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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.

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

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

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.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

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.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

Things are done according to money these days.

I can be a lazy slob.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

Being old is such a treat!