Explore Quotes by Shirley Maclaine

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

I can be a lazy slob.

We need proof in our society.

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.

Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

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

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.

The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.

Things are done according to money these days.

I'm not interested in fame at all.

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

I think we plan everything, somehow, on another level.

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

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.

You can't take a crash course in serenity.

I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.

I have a lot of friends who are around. I'm having a wonderful time in my life now with my platonic relationships with men and women, because when that sexual tension is off the requirement of the interplay, then you get to who the people really are, and to yourself.