Maclaine Shirley 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

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts. — Shirley Maclaine

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

Things are done according to money these days. — Shirley Maclaine

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

We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology. — Shirley Maclaine

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. — 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

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

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days. — Shirley Maclaine

People think I'm nuts. — Shirley Maclaine

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

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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. — Shirley Maclaine

Sex is hardly ever just about sex. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

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

Well, success does not mean doing well. — Shirley Maclaine

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

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower. — Shirley Maclaine

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity. — Shirley Maclaine

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science. — Shirley Maclaine

For me, the safest place is out on a limb. — Shirley Maclaine

On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives. — 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

I don't do like diva trips and stuff. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully. — 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'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

You have to surrender to the energy above and below. — Shirley Maclaine

I live in too many cities. — Shirley Maclaine

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it. — Shirley Maclaine

If I could know me, I could know the universe. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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. — Shirley Maclaine

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this. — Shirley Maclaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — Shirley Maclaine

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real. — Shirley Maclaine

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

An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

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

Being old is such a treat! — Shirley Maclaine

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. — Shirley Maclaine

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

I can be a lazy slob. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power. — 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

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

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

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

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

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

We need proof in our society. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Shirley Maclaine

You can't take a crash course in serenity. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — Shirley Maclaine

Listen to sounds beyond silence. — Shirley Maclaine

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

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others. — Shirley Maclaine

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. — 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 think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant. — Shirley Maclaine

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

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy. — Shirley Maclaine

It's real important to enjoy your turn. — Shirley Maclaine

I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine. — Leslie Mann

I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine. — Roseanne Barr

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self. — Shirley Maclaine

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off. — Shirley Maclaine

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

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

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

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