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.

- Shirley MacLaine

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.

- Shirley MacLaine

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.

- Shirley MacLaine

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.

- Shirley MacLaine

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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.

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

- Shirley MacLaine

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.

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

I don't do like diva trips and stuff.

- Shirley MacLaine

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

- Shirley MacLaine

I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

- Shirley MacLaine