“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.”
Beauty
“I never would have given up my work to stay home.”
HomeAll Quotes by Shirley MacLaine
“Things are done according to money these days.”
Money“I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.”
Women“It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.”
Love“Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.”
Women“The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.”
Experience“It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.”
Politics“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”
Fear“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.”
Experience“We need proof in our society.”
Society“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.”
Change“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.”
Famous“Well, success does not mean doing well.”
Success“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Fear“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.”
Experience“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.”
Success“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.”
Art“I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”
Relationship“I've gotten crankier in my old age.”
Age“If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”
Family