Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I don't feel competitive.

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

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.

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

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

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

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.

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.

I make my mistakes in public.

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.

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.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

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

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

I'm not interested in fame at all.

I live in too many cities.

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.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

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.

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

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

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