Top 140 Shirley Maclaine Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I hoped that the trip would be the best of all journeys: a journey into ourselves.”

— Shirley Maclaine

52. “My gift is that I’m not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It’s about health and being in good shape.”

— Shirley Maclaine

53. “You can’t lie when you dance. It’s so direct. You do what is in you. It is impossible to dance out of the side of your mouth.”

— Shirley Maclaine

54. “Once you get your own family clear in your head, whatever your problems are with it, you’re better prepared for being an adult in the world.”

— Shirley Maclaine

55. “One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.”

— Shirley Maclaine

56. “Well, when you’re relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There’s no such thing as time when you’re really relaxed. That’s why meditation works.”

— Shirley Maclaine

57. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

58. “I have never seen myself as leading for others. What’s important is that I know who I am. Not completely. But I’m coming around third base.”

— Shirley Maclaine

59. “I think it’s much more important to know the truth than it is to make money on it.”

— Shirley Maclaine

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

— Shirley Maclaine

61. “I think we have to do something about the environment and how we are polluting the planet.”

— Shirley Maclaine

62. “If I could know me, I could know the universe.”

— Shirley Maclaine

63. “I don’t think you go out of style when you’re living in the present most of the time. And I think that is what I do.”

— Shirley Maclaine

64. “For if the talent or individuality is there, it should be expressed. If it doesn’t find its way out into the air, it can be turned inward and gnaw like the fox at the Spartan boy’s belly.”

— Shirley Maclaine

65. “Being old is such a treat!”

— Shirley Maclaine

66. “Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension.”

— Shirley Maclaine

67. “Listen to sounds beyond silence.”

— Shirley Maclaine

68. “You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.”

— Shirley Maclaine

69. “I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.”

— Shirley Maclaine

70. “New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.”

— Shirley Maclaine

71. “Someday change will be accepted as life itself.”

— Shirley Maclaine

72. “Melt their weapons, melt their hearts, melt their anger with love.”

— Shirley Maclaine

73. “Then come the lights shining on you from above. You are a performer. You forget all you learned, the process of technique, the fear, the pain, you even forget who you are you become one with the music, the lights, indeed one with the dance.”

— Shirley Maclaine

74. “God bless that potential that we all have for making anything possible if we think we deserve it. I deserve this.”

— Shirley Maclaine

75. “Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.”

— Shirley Maclaine

76. “One of the most erogenous zones of a woman is her intelligence.”

— Shirley Maclaine

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

— Shirley Maclaine

78. “I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.”

— Shirley Maclaine

79. “You can’t take a crash course in serenity.”

— Shirley Maclaine

80. “On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.”

— Shirley Maclaine

81. “Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.”

— Shirley Maclaine

82. “Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn’t have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.”

— Shirley Maclaine

83. “For me, the safest place is out on a limb.”

— Shirley Maclaine

84. “And I think we’ll be able to prove scientifically that other talents such as intuitive, psychic, clairvoyant and audiovoyant are very real.”

— Shirley Maclaine

85. “I’d like to introduce someone who has just come into my life. I’ve admired him for 35 years. He’s someone who represents integrity, honesty, art, and on top of that stuff I’m actually sleeping with him.”

— Shirley Maclaine

86. “It’s useless to hold a person to anything he says while he’s in love, drunk, or running for office.”

— Shirley Maclaine

87. “I had a video made of my recent knee operation. The doctor said it was the best movie I ever starred in.”

— Shirley Maclaine

88. “I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.”

— Shirley Maclaine

89. “New Age thinking asks that each person take responsibility for everything that happens in life because everything in life is connected.”

— Shirley Maclaine

90. “I was afraid I would get the Oscar for ‘Irma La Douce’ because it was popular. But I didn’t want to because I didn’t really think it was that good.”

— Shirley Maclaine

91. “I mean, I’m just speaking of my own experiences and my own desires, and it’s a kind of a childlike wonder that could really possibly speculate on other dimensions.”

— Shirley Maclaine

92. “Art is about energy positive and negative. All art has the power to heal because it helps us see who we are, and what we resist.”

— Shirley Maclaine

93. “I’m a peaceful person once work ethic is established.”

— Shirley Maclaine

94. “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.”

— Shirley Maclaine

95. “The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.”

— Shirley Maclaine

96. “People think I’m nuts.”

— Shirley Maclaine

97. “I loved the idea of doing a love story with people over the age of 60 and a film that will hopefully give so many of the audience a chance to see themselves on the screen.”

— Shirley Maclaine

98. “I don’t have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.”

— Shirley Maclaine

99. “An actor has many lives and many people within him. I know there are lots of people inside me. No one ever said I’m dull.”

— Shirley Maclaine

100. “I watched my head rolling on the floor. It landed face up and a big tear came out of one eye.”

— Shirley Maclaine