Shirley MacLaine Quotes - Page 3

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

In terms of my life, I guess I want to share whatever I've learned really, which is basically one thing: know yourself, look for yourself, know what to look for, cherish it, be honest, be authentic, even if it hurts your feelings. That's not bad.

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

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

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.

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

I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.

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 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.

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

The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.

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.

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

Being old is such a treat!

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'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.

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

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

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

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

You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.

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.