Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

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.

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

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.

I don't like to socialise much.

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

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

I can't give up my own identity.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

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

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

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.

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