271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

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.

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.

I’ve made so many movies playing a hooker that they don’t pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.

Crystals are amplifying minerals. You have a crystal in a radio – it amplifies the sound waves. You have a crystal in a television set – it amplifies the light waves. When you hold crystals, they amplify thought waves.

The uninvestigated life is not worth living. I don’t want to live that way.

If I had a party to attend and didn’t want to be there, I would play the part of someone who was having a lovely time.

I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn’t even know I wasn’t living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn’t and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.

I can’t give up my own identity.

It’s real important to enjoy your turn.