A biography for Shirley MacLainehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.”
“I don't do like diva trips and stuff.”
“I don't have an assistant. I make a lot of people around me my slaves, but no assistant.”
“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.”
“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.”
“Crystals amplify the consciousness.”
“Sex is hardly ever just about sex.”
“A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.”
“I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.”
“I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”
“When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.”
“Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.”
“If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.”
“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.”
“The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.”
“I don't like leaving my dog when I go to England and she is with me all the time.”
“Movie makers now choose profit over vision.”
“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.”
“I've made so many movies playing a hooker that they don't pay me in the regular way anymore. They leave it on the dresser.”