Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

About Shirley MacLaine:

Shirley MacLean Beaty is an American film, television and theater actress, singer, dancer, activist and author. She has won one Academy Award, five Golden Globe Awards, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award, one Emmy Award and two BAFTA Awards.
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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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

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

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

Shirley MacLaine

I'm not interested in fame at all.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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

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

Shirley MacLaine

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

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

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

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

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

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Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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

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The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

Shirley MacLaine

Author Bio

  • NameShirley MacLaine
  • DescriptionAmerican actress
  • BornApril 24, 1934
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionFilm Actor; Actor; Dancer; Musician
  • AwardsKnight Of The Legion Of Honour; Academy Award For Best Actress; Primetime Emmy Award