Explore Quotes by Shirley Maclaine

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

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

Never trust a man when he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

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.

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

I was always a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the leading lady, I was a character actor.

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.

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I've gotten crankier in my old age.

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.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

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

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.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.