Shirley MacLaine famous quotes

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Inspirational #Life #Being Yourself

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

#Thinking #Important #Making Money

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Friendship #Spiritual #Fear

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Positive Thinking #Thinking #Dwelling

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

#Love #Inspirational #Funny

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Funny #Anniversary #Husband

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Fighting #Soul #Littles

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Fear #Fruit #Limbs

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Thinking #People

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ***** and shake it.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Dance #Nice #Feminism

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Limbs

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

#Shoes #Water #Pairs

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Sex

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.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Dance #Lying #Mouths

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

#Beautiful #Careers #Looks

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

#People #Meditation #Remember

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

#Friendship #Travel #Fear

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.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Men #Thinking #Order

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Funny #Smile #Humor

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Single #Profound #Heartless

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

#Thinking #Oscars #God Bless

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.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Real #Being Single #Self

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

#Acceptance #Expectations #Release

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Real #Trying #Actors

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

#Song #Intuition #Vibrations

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

#Way #World #Victim

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

#Dance #Art #Soul

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.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Dance #Pain #Light

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.
-- Shirley MacLaine

#Giving #Life Is #Boomerang