Top 193 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley MacLaine

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actress Shirley MacLaine.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Shirley MacLaine is an American actress, singer, author, activist, and former dancer. Known for her portrayals of quirky, strong willed and eccentric women, MacLaine has received numerous accolades over her seven-decade career, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two Volpi Cups and two Silver Bears.

American - Actress | Born: April 24, 1934

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

Shirley MacLaine

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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I can't give up my own identity.

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I don't like to socialise much.

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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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.

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

Well, success does not mean doing well.

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

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

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I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

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

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

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

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I've gotten crankier in my old age.

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

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I don't feel competitive.

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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.

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

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I make my mistakes in public.

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

Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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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.

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I live in too many cities.

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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.

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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

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People think I'm nuts.

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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.

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

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

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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.

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

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When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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