271 Quotes by Shirley MacLaine

The comedy of class, played so straight, is a wonderful thing for an actor to sink their teeth into.

Hollywood always had a streak of the totalitarian in just about everything it did. The old moguls were essentially hard-fisted authoritarians who had created a system of linked dictatorships to control the creative people. We were supposed to be the children; mad, tempestuous, brilliant, talented, not terribly smart children.

Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.

The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.

The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.

Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.

Things are done according to money these days.

If we can genuinely honor our mother and father we are not only at peace with ourselves but we can then give birth to our future.