271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

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    I was so appalled. They were kind of waiting for Terry to walk out and perhaps take a poop or something, because she's famous herself, and what would I do about the poop? And would they make me mad? Because the whole point is, they want to make you mad, and then they get a good picture.

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    You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.

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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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    My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.

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    I think that families are the most important lesson we can learn from and in, and I haven't seen many pictures lately that have to do with the search for who we are and identity,

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    I think he really doesn't know. What's he doing with a women's picture, anyway?

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    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.

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