Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

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

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.

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.

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

Things are done according to money these days.

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

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I live in too many cities.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

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.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

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

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

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.

We need proof in our society.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I don't like to socialise much.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

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

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

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

I'm not one for wardrobe.

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

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

I can't give up my own identity.

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.