271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

He [Jimmy Carter] says his lust is in his heart. I hope it's a little lower.

I'd like to go to another planet, which I might live long enough to accomplish. Just get on a spaceship and go. But not the moon. I don't see any flowers there. The moon is too close. I want to go further.

Films and life are like clay, waiting for us to mold it. And when you trust your own insides and that becomes achievement, it's a kind of principle that seems to me is at work with everyone. God bless that principle. God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it.

You know, I think I had my first past life recall when I was 7.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

The secret is to let the audience feel through the actress, rather than having the actress feel for the audience. When you can do that, you involved the audience almost without their knowledge or awareness.

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 wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.