Top 100 Maclaine Quotes
#1. I like more grounded comedy. I enjoy broad comedies also, but I like Shirley MacLaine.
Leslie Mann
#3. Shirley MacLaine said, You're so funny, then gave me a hug. Everything went white. I couldn't hear, I couldn't see. I thought I was going to pass out.
Lisa Kudrow
#4. One movie I think is just terrific is 'Bernie,' with Jack Black and Shirley MacLaine. That was a great surprise to me - so witty, so entertaining, a true story, and I'm not a great Jack Black fan, but he's great in it. I think it's a gem.
Robert Osborne
#5. Marlon Brando, Jack Nicholson, Sean Connery and Robert Redford, Mel Gibson - at least in the Road Warrior films - and Harrison Ford are among my favorite actors. Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda, Sally Field, Deborah Winger, Jessica Lange, and of course, Shirley MacLaine, are among the women.
Frederick Lenz
#6. Shirley Maclaine once said that she didn't want to be a big star, just a long star. That's what I want too.
Joyce DeWitt
#7. I'm just into spirituality. I believe that in a previous life I used to be Shirley MacLaine.
Roseanne Barr
#8. All of my favorite actresses are comedians at heart: Shirley MacLaine and Madeline Kahn, Diane Keaton and Debra Winger. And they are all amazing dramatic actresses, but everything they do is funny.
Casey Wilson
#9. When actress Shirley Maclaine arrived 30 minutes late for a class, I asked her to leave.
Bikram Choudhury
#10. Being in the same scenes as Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine is something I will never forget.
Michelle Dockery
#11. If you're a fan of Shirley MacLaine just like I am, I'd kinda go anywhere to work with her.
Scott Bakula
#13. You only live once, except for Shirley MacLaine.
Alan King
#14. There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
Shirley Maclaine
#15. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley Maclaine
#16. Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. 'Please say you still love me,' the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.
Shirley Maclaine
#17. Sometimes people who have their lives played out in public don't feel they have the privacy to continually journey within. I did, and that's why I have longevity.
Shirley Maclaine
#20. You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.
Shirley Maclaine
#22. The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Shirley Maclaine
#23. I need to give up the OPTION of ever having what I want
Jim Maclaine
#24. I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
Shirley Maclaine
#25. I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.
Shirley Maclaine
#26. Being a dancer meant you nearly always thought about food.
Shirley Maclaine
#27. To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.
Shirley Maclaine
#29. The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.
Shirley Maclaine
#30. I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.
Shirley Maclaine
#33. I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
Shirley Maclaine
#35. 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
#36. 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
#38. Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.
Shirley Maclaine
#39. Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it.
Shirley Maclaine
#40. 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
#44. I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
Shirley Maclaine
#45. I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
Shirley Maclaine
#47. My first few weeks in New York were an initiation into the kingdom of guts.
Shirley Maclaine
#48. Darkness is simply a piece of the whole, neither good nor evil unless you make it so.
Jenna Maclaine
#49. 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.
Shirley Maclaine
#50. One individual is his or her own best teacher, and no other idol or false image should be worshiped or adored because the God we are all seeking lies inside oneself, not outside.
Shirley Maclaine
#51. 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
#52. The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.
Shirley Maclaine
#53. New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.
Shirley Maclaine
#54. I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.
Shirley Maclaine
#55. I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine
#57. In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.
Shirley Maclaine
#59. Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
Shirley Maclaine
#60. The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don't want to live that way.
Shirley Maclaine
#61. He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.
Shirley Maclaine
#63. And do you not think less of me for making my fortune in
such a way?" After all, her own sister did.
He gave her an odd look. "There is no shame in being the
mistress of a king. It's a position of great power and influence. I think less of Louis for letting you go.
Jenna Maclaine
#64. One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence.
Shirley Maclaine
#65. The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley Maclaine
#66. We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.
Shirley Maclaine
#69. I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley Maclaine
#70. To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.
Shirley Maclaine
#71. You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.
Shirley Maclaine
#73. 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
#75. 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
#76. I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.
Shirley Maclaine
#77. 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.
Shirley Maclaine
#78. One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.
Shirley Maclaine
#79. I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.
Shirley Maclaine
#80. Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That's why I love my animals. They live in the present.
Shirley Maclaine
#81. Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.
Shirley Maclaine
#82. 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.
Shirley Maclaine
#83. I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up
sociologically, politically, and creatively
I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.
Shirley Maclaine
#87. 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.
Shirley Maclaine
#89. I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.
Shirley Maclaine
#91. The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.
Shirley Maclaine
#92. The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.
Shirley Maclaine
#93. It's useless to hold a person to anything he says wile he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
Shirley Maclaine
#94. An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
Shirley Maclaine
#95. When things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.
Shirley Maclaine
#96. On things she had to pack before leaving her home in advance of a forest fire, 1996. Childhood pictures and pictures of my life. Do you know how many pictures that is? Not just this life; I have pictures from 13,000 lives.
Shirley Maclaine
#99. 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.
Shirley Maclaine
#100. Bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.
Shirley Maclaine
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