Shirley Maclaine 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.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

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

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

When things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

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.

The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

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

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

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.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

I live in too many cities.

I make my mistakes in public.

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

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.

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

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

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

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.

It's real important to enjoy your turn.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

People think I'm nuts.

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

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

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

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.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

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.

I don't like to socialise much.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

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

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

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.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

I have to do two things at once or I get tired.

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.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

I simply channeled a character, this time I allowed the character to inhabit me.

Being old is such a treat!

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.

I can't give up my own identity.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

I can be a lazy slob.

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

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

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

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

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.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

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.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

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.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

The illusion never really dissipates that you can lose twenty pounds in one night by cutting out dinner.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

Things are done according to money these days.

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

I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

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

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

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

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

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.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.