Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

I can be a lazy slob.

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

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

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

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

Being old is such a treat!

I don't feel competitive.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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

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