Shirley MacLaine Quotes - Page 5

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

I make my mistakes in public.

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

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

The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

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

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

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

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

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.

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.

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

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 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.