Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

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.

Things are done according to money these days.

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

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

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

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

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

I can be a lazy slob.

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.

We need proof in our society.

Being old is such a treat!

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I don't feel competitive.

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

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.

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.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.