271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

I was afraid I would get the Oscar for 'Irma La Douce' because it was popular. But I didn't want to because I didn't really think it was that good.

I do miss the stage. There's nothing like it, nothing. When I did my one-woman show and played the Palace and played the Gershwin and all that, I did - what? - eight shows or maybe more a week. Of course you can't do anything else, and you can't run quickly for a cab in the rain, and you can't have a drunken love affair. You can't do any of that. Because you've got to be perfectly healthy. And I guess I value enjoying my life a little bit more than the discipline these days.

Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

He's a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.