Quotes from Shirley MacLaine

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

People think I'm nuts.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

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

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

Things are done according to money these days.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

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

You are the architect of your personal experience.

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

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

Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

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.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.