Quotes By Shirley MacLaine

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.

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.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

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.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

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.

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.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

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

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

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 never would have given up my work to stay home.

People think I'm nuts.