Best Shirley Maclaine Quotes & Sayings

I make my mistakes in public. — Shirley Maclaine

All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny. — Casey Wilson

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give. — Shirley Maclaine

Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too. — Joyce DeWitt

For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly. — Shirley Maclaine

Sex is hardly ever just about sex. — Shirley Maclaine

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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. — Shirley Maclaine

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway. — 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. — Shirley Maclaine

Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget. — Michelle Dockery

I can be a lazy slob. — Shirley Maclaine

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present. — Shirley Maclaine

Why do people have to love people anyway? — Shirley Maclaine

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up
sociologically, politically, and creatively
I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror. — Shirley Maclaine

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — 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. — Shirley Maclaine

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality. — Shirley Maclaine

One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence. — Shirley Maclaine

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level. — Shirley Maclaine

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it. — Shirley Maclaine

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

Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women. — Frederick Lenz

The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness. — Shirley Maclaine

We need proof in our society. — Shirley Maclaine

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it. — Shirley Maclaine

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

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself. — Shirley Maclaine