Top 140 Shirley Maclaine Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That’s the journey.”

— Shirley Maclaine

2. “In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.”

— Shirley Maclaine

3. “Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.”

— Shirley Maclaine

4. “Anything is possible if you believe you deserve it.”

— Shirley Maclaine

5. “Perhaps the longest journey is the journey within.”

— Shirley Maclaine

6. “Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. It’s where all the fruit is.”

— Shirley Maclaine

7. “Crystals amplify the consciousness.”

— Shirley Maclaine

8. “Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.”

— Shirley Maclaine

9. “Celebrate what is possible. Your beliefs will create your reality.”

— Shirley Maclaine

10. “Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

— Shirley Maclaine

11. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

12. “To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.”

— Shirley Maclaine

13. “To dance at all is to confront oneself. It is the art of honesty.”

— Shirley Maclaine

14. “I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.”

— Shirley Maclaine

15. “The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday for some kind of moving meditation, like Qigong or Tai Chi.”

— Shirley Maclaine

16. “He’s a real gentleman. I bet he takes the dishes out of the sink before he pees in it.”

— Shirley Maclaine

17. “All you really need in life is some fresh water, a good hat, and a really good pair of shoes.”

— Shirley Maclaine

18. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

19. “You are the architect of your personal experience.”

— Shirley Maclaine

20. “When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.”

— Shirley Maclaine

21. “You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.”

— Shirley Maclaine

22. “A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”

— Shirley Maclaine

23. “All life is a boomerang. We receive what we give.”

— Shirley Maclaine

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

— Shirley Maclaine

25. “I don’t need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”

— Shirley Maclaine

26. “It’s real important to enjoy your turn.”

— Shirley Maclaine

27. “We are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the world.”

— Shirley Maclaine

28. “If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.”

— Shirley Maclaine

29. “The loss of magic is the denial of unlimited possibility.”

— Shirley Maclaine

30. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

31. “Technology has outstripped our knowledge of self.”

— Shirley Maclaine

32. “Nothing should be permanent except struggle with the dark side within ourselves.”

— Shirley Maclaine

33. “What we live with is ourselves. And when you have your own identity you are much easier to live with.”

— Shirley Maclaine

34. “We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.”

— Shirley Maclaine

35. “You have to surrender to the energy above and below.”

— Shirley Maclaine

36. “I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.”

— Shirley Maclaine

37. “Dance is an art that imprints on the soul. It is with you every moment, it expresses itself in everything you do.”

— Shirley Maclaine

38. “If you’re comfortable with yourself-which everyone can get to, to some extent-that’s when you start getting into who is your real self.”

— Shirley Maclaine

39. “Why do people have to love people anyway?”

— Shirley Maclaine

40. “I can’t give up my own identity.”

— Shirley Maclaine

41. “Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.”

— Shirley Maclaine

42. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

43. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

44. “I’m not unaware of how I’m perceived, I just don’t care about it. Unless I really hurt someone’s feelings. I care about that.”

— Shirley Maclaine

45. “Maybe the tragedy of the human race was that we had forgotten that we are each divine.”

— Shirley Maclaine

46. “Until mankind realizes that there is, in truth, no good, and there is, in truth, no evil-there will be no peace.”

— Shirley Maclaine

47. “Sometimes I feel an impingement of something I went through in another lifetime. But I like to concentrate on the absolute present. That’s why I love my animals. They live in the present.”

— Shirley Maclaine

48. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

49. “I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then absolutely anything is possible. From that moment my life changed.”

— Shirley Maclaine

50. “I don’t do like diva trips and stuff.”

— Shirley Maclaine