It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office. – Shirley MacLaine
I don’t have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. – 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
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 don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves. – Shirley MacLaine
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. – 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
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
You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. – Shirley MacLaine