Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

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

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

Things are done according to money these days.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

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.

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.

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

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

We need proof in our society.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

The pain of leaving those you've grown to love is only the prelude to an understanding of yourself and others.

You know, I think the consciousness of the higher self and the eternal self is determined by, how much fear, you have, or allow yourself to have. And that's what I've been working on. The older I get, the more I realize, that what, it's, Love versus Fear, not Love versus Hate. 1march2017 interview, James Corden TV show USA

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

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.

Being old is such a treat!

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.