271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

The studios don't make stars. Great movies, great scripts make stars. I never had a chance to grow through my roles, I never had an acting class in my life. What the studios had were visionaries who cared about the movies, about making good movies.

One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

They didn't even tell me about that. I found out the next day on set, ... They didn't even tell (co-star) Kevin Costner, either.

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.

It was definitely a great experience, ... All that work and all the long hours are paying off.

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.

That's the best I've had all year! ... God, I'd love to get drunk with you!

The pain of leaving those you grow to love is only the prelude to understanding yourself and others.