Explore Quotes by Shirley Maclaine

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

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 problem.

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.

I mean, I'm just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it's a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

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.

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.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

People think I'm nuts.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

Movie makers now choose profit over vision.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established. If people are around me and whatever I'm doing is efficient, then I'm extremely peaceful.

I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!