Shirley MacLaine

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

-Shirley MacLaine

age
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

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

-Shirley MacLaine

beauty
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

beauty
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

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

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

experience
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 eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

family
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

famous
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

fear
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

home
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 eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

love
Things are done according to money these days.

-Shirley MacLaine

money
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

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

-Shirley MacLaine

peace
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

-Shirley MacLaine

politics
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

-Shirley MacLaine

relationship
We need proof in our society.

-Shirley MacLaine

society
Well, success does not mean doing well.

-Shirley MacLaine

success
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

success
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

truth
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

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

-Shirley MacLaine

women

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