Shirley Maclaine Quotes

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

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

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

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 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.

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

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.

Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.

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

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

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

It's real important to enjoy your turn.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

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

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.

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

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

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.

Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.

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

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

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.

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

Being old is such a treat!

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.

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

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

Aging people are underserved in this culture - big time. I want to stay healthy so I can serve that community and be a voice.

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

We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.

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 don't think you go out of style when you're living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.

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.

For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.

Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.

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

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.