Shirley MacLaine

Shirley MacLaine

23 quotes

American actress and author Shirley MacLaine (b. 1934) remains a towering presence in the world of memorable quotations. Shirley MacLaine's observations on Women are as sharp as their thoughts on Experience, revealing genuine breadth of mind. 29 of Shirley MacLaine's sharpest quotes live here, spanning themes of Women, Experience, Success, Fear, and Beauty. Consider this gem from Shirley MacLaine: "I've gotten crankier in my old age."

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Fear

All Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Women

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

— Shirley MacLaine

Fear

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Experience

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Fear

“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

“Well, success does not mean doing well.”

— Shirley MacLaine

Success

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Love

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Beauty

“I've gotten crankier in my old age.”

— Shirley MacLaine

Age

“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

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Home

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Experience

“Things are done according to money these days.”

— Shirley MacLaine

Money

“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

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

— Shirley MacLaine

Politics

“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

“We need proof in our society.”

— Shirley MacLaine

Society

“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

“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