Shirley MacLaine Quotes
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The pickings are pretty slim when you have to play the part of a housewife who doesn't go out of her apartment because she's afraid she's going to get mugged, or a woman who turns into her brother, who is a murderer.
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You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.
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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.
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Crystals amplify the consciousness.
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An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I'm dull.
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I thought playing an angel would be very good for my image.
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The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.
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I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
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I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.
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For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
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I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.
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bonding through dependence never works, whereas bonding through freedom always does.
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You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.
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I live in too many cities.
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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.
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On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.
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I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.
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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.
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Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.
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Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.
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The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.
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It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
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There's no journey worth taking except the journey through one's self. That's the most important journey you take. I found that out as I went around the world many times: I was learning about me.
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Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.
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I'm 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.
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There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can't.
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My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.
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Things are done according to money these days.
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I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.
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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.
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