Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

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.

I make my mistakes in public.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

I never would have given up my work to stay home.

I live in too many cities.

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.