Zitat des Tages von Shirley MacLaine:
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.
The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.
For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.
The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.
I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.
I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.
I live in too many cities.
People think I'm nuts.
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.
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.
The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.
Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.
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 don't like to socialise much.
It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.
I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
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.
I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
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'm not one for wardrobe.
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.
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.
If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.
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.
Movie makers now choose profit over vision.
I don't feel competitive.
I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!
Being old is such a treat!
I can't give up my own identity.