Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

Things are done according to money these days.

I'm not one for wardrobe.

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

I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.

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.

We need proof in our society.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.

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

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

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

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

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

It is incredible, when you start believing in angels your life becomes a lot smoother.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

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

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

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

Why do people have to love people anyway?

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.

Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.

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

I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up -- sociologically, politically, and creatively -- I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

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

I'm too direct and too unsparingly impatient.

Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.

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.

People think I'm nuts.

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

Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it. You're better prepared for being an adult in the world.

When things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

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

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

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.

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

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.

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

Being old is such a treat!

One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.

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.

I'm a city girl and I never really lived in the country, so I'm learning about that.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.

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

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

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.

If I could know me, I could know the universe.

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

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

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 have a lot of friends who come and stay, and we talk about the world.

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

Acupuncturists

Chiropractors

Massage Therapists

Dentists

and more!

I make my mistakes in public.

All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.

You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio -- it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set -- it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

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

The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.

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

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

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

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.

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.

I'm very involved with learning to be self-sufficient.

I can be a lazy slob.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

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.

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

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

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

Bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

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