Shirley MacLaine Quotes (45 Quotes)

I've had contour wraps and massages in places I didn't know I had.

I don't need a man to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we'll ever have is the one with ourselves.

I loved the examination of old money in Pasadena (California) and I loved that this woman (Jennifer Aniston's character) from a background that was sculpted in Pasadena has been in New York she is about to get married she comes back looks at what she came from and is so appalled and astonished and I am the grandmother who is the only one she can talk to and the only one in Pasadena who is basically talking the truth.

I knew that her canvas was deeper than she had allowed herself to be, ... Something About Mary and Charlie's Angels Come on. This is bigger. And she was very courageous in my opinion and disciplined. Quite disciplined for someone that the public considers ditzy.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.

I think he really doesn't know. What's he doing with a women's picture, anyway

He's fine. He had a good time tonight.

The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow through my roles, I never had an acting class in my life. What the studios had were visionaries who cared about the movies, about making good movies.

I don't know. It just happens and you love your work and you love your profession, you stay there and you will find each other.

It's exciting for a character in the movie to say he knows all the best places to eat and this is a good one,

The if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn't find its way out into the air, it can turn inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy's belly.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

That's the best I've had all year ... God, I'd love to get drunk with you

I'm old enough now to have the confidence to do 'contained, ... I've done it, but just not lately. Not in my years of wisdom.

They're with me all the (expletive) time. They're with me when I go in. They're with me when I come out. They're with me when I take a nap. They're there when my dog poops,

I've never cared whether a picture makes money or not. Now I care, because it's all about whether they'll finance the next one. And we've got to start making better pictures in Hollywood.

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.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

He's an expert filmmaker, and he's an ex-journalist, so he really knows how to investigate what people are feeling, ... And I found it fascinating that he wanted to go into something that dealt with women's feelings.

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.

All those ghosts were hanging around. ... If I had been them, I would have gone to work,

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

I am 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.

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

It was a lot of work. Now I see why movies cost millions of dollars to make,

These mothers should be impounded with their cars for the rest of time.

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.

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

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.

The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.

Yeah, I turned down 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore.' Can you believe it With 'Alice,' I thought, 'Martin Scorsese. I wonder if he knows what he's doing' Oh, man, what a mistake Ellen Burstyn won an Oscar for that role.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I think that families are the most important lesson we can learn from and in, and I haven't seen many pictures lately that have to do with the search for who we are and identity,

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or something, because she's famous herself, and what would I do about the poop And would they make me mad Because the whole point is, they want to make you mad, and then they get a good picture.

But what is the perception of women in general on the screen

People come in here and say, 'Why can't we get Jamaican food where we live in Ohio or California' ... I'd like to make that happen. Even in Paris and Tokyo.

I love having my butt kissed by you. That's the best I've had in 10 years

This isn't about female relationship really. It is about familial relationship in which there are real problems a suicide, and a hidden grandmother. So that's not really exploring female relationships. It's about, 'Why did my son-in-law do that' And the girls' lives are out of control and (my character helps) bring their lives together with some kind of stability.

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 know they are important movie people, ... but here they were at my kitchen table waiting for food they had just discovered.

I love playing contained. I'm going to pattern the rest of my career after Morgan Freeman.