Top 193 Quotes & Sayings by Shirley MacLaine - Page 2

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.

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.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

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.

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

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

I can be a lazy slob.

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

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

I'm not one for wardrobe.

Being old is such a treat!

We need proof in our society.

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

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

Things are done according to money these days.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

Listen to sounds beyond silence.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

It's real important to enjoy your turn.

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.