Shirley MacLaine quotes:

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.

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

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

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

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

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 can't give up my own identity.

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.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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.

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.

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

We need proof in our society.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

Being old is such a treat!

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

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

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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Things are done according to money these days.

Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

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

On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives.

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

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

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

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

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

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

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

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

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

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Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

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

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

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

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

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

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

I can be a lazy slob.

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.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

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

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

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

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

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.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

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.

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

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.

I make my mistakes in public.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

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

...One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

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.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

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.

Ballet is the repetitive training of the body for the purpose of executing steps in traditional fashion. It is tied to and bound by the past. It is a disciplined beauty consciously preserved in the image of the old days in societies that were class-conscious and appreciative of elitist physical expertise.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

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

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

I believe in UFOs, I believe in extraterrestrials, and I believe in angels. And maybe they'll protect all of us.

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.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

I don't feel competitive.

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

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

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.

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

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

I have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

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

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

I live in too many cities.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

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

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 think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I think materialism has trumped a lot of stuff, but I don't think it has trumped the heart, especially when it comes to (a person's) last thought.

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

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.

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

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.

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 was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

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

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

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.

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.