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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I'm not one for wardrobe.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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 e...

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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.

Shirley MacLaine

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

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