Shirley Maclaine Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Shirley Maclaine
Shirley Maclaine Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Shirley Maclaine on Wise Famous Quotes.
The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.
Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.
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 anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
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.
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.
And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.
The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.
Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.
You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.
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 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.
Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
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.
If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.
My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.
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.
An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.
The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.
I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.