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. – Shirley MacLaine
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. – Shirley MacLaine
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into. – 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
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
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. – 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
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 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
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. – 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
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
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
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
The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine
Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it’s not real at all. – Shirley MacLaine
