Quotes By 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.

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.

Being old is such a treat!

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

I don't feel competitive.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

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.

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

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.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

I make my mistakes in public.

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

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

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

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

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.

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.

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

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 don't do like diva trips and stuff.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I live in too many cities.

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