Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

I am stubborn, he had said once, 'or how you call obstinate, then you must hit me. Hit me hard. Russians need to be hit. We only understand to be hit. We need a big fist, I can tell you.

A spiritually evolved person in a former lifetime could choose to have the experiences of spiritual blindness in this lifetime, just to act as a catalyst for someone like you who needed to be more articulate about what you had come to realize.

It means moving forward with courage," she answered.

Perhaps we should move backward with courage, so as to understand what we really came from and who we were.

Technology has become the way Western man perceives progress. But technology itself is a reflection of how we see ourselves. If the negativity is in us, it will appear somewhere in our technology.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

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.

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

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.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

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.

I can't give up my own identity.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

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

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

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

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.