Shirley MacLaine quotes - page 2

Movie makers now choose profit over vision. (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. View quote
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I make my mistakes in public. View quote
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You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7. View quote
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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. View quote
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My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Sex is hardly ever just about sex. (Shirley MacLaine)
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it. View quote
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For me, the safest place is out on a limb. View quote
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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. View quote
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I don't do like diva trips and stuff. View quote
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I live in too many cities. View quote
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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. View quote
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You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Shirley MacLaine)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I've gotten crankier in my old age. View quote
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I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant. View quote
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