29 Quotes By Shirley MacLaine


I've gotten crankier in my old age.
Shirley MacLaine on age

I'd like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I've admired him for 35 years. He's someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I'm actually sleeping with him.
Shirley MacLaine on art

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

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.
Shirley MacLaine on beauty

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.
Shirley MacLaine on change

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.
Shirley MacLaine on experience

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
Shirley MacLaine on experience

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.
Shirley MacLaine on experience

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

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 real problem.
Shirley MacLaine on famous

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

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

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

I never would have given up my work to stay home.
Shirley MacLaine on home

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.
Shirley MacLaine on knowledge

The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
Shirley MacLaine on learning

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

Things are done according to money these days.
Shirley MacLaine on money

I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.
Shirley MacLaine on movies

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