271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

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.

There are stars who are proficiently paranoid enough to hide what they really think. I can’t.

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.

Fear is concealed in smiles and flashing teeth. ‘Please say you still love me,’ the kings and queens are really saying. And, when they fare badly, they return to their palaces and sleep fitfully.

I don’t feel competitive.

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.

Of course I’m schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

I’m not one for wardrobe.

I don’t know why anybody would be in awe of me.