Shirley MacLaine Quotes - Page 4

I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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.

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

I have to do two things at once or I get tired.

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

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

My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.

What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.

People think I'm nuts.

I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.

I can't give up my own identity.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

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

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

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.

It's not going to be about money. It's going to be about who am I, what have I done and where am I going.

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

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

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.