Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.

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

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

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

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

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'm not one for wardrobe.

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

I live in too many cities.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

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

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

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.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.

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

no one ever really leaves Hollywood. No one really leaves unless they are called away by God. Even then, the impulse would be to come back again and make a movie about the experience.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

I don't feel competitive.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

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

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

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.