Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

I can be a lazy slob.

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.

I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

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 problem.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

If I had a party to attend and didn't want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

You have to be talentedly insecure in order to be a good actress. And then it's the director's job to make you more miserable and get a good take.

I make my mistakes in public.

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.

I'm in love with the potential of miracles. For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.

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

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.