Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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

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.

And I think we'll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.

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

You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.

We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

Crystals amplify the consciousness.

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

All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

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

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.

...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.

If you're comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that's when you start getting into who is your real self.

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

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio - it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set - it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

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

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

You have to surrender to the energy above and below.

New York was the only city I knew in the world where you could be desperately lonely at nine in the morning, crossing the street for a bagel at Gristede's, and find that seven hours later you were drinking Irish coffee at P.J. Clarke's with all the friends you had inherited along the way.

Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.

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

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

We feel the urge to tell the truth as we see it. But we should try to accomplish this without judgemental condemnations that hurt others. Again, when we remember that what we perceive in another is a reflection of ourselves, we become less judgemental. So when we freely express harsh judgement of another, we are in effect talking about those aspects of ourselves that trouble us the most.

Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

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

Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

I have a great life, to tell you the truth.

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

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

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

I think it's much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.

I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.

Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

I have never seen myself as leading for others. What's important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I'm coming around third base.

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.

Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.

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

Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

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.

bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.