Shirley MacLaine

“I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!”

“I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.”

“People think I'm nuts.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“I think the hill one has to trudge in order to understand a man's baggage is more of a trek than I'd like to take right now.”

“Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.”

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

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

“My mother was Canadian, so you never knew what she was thinking.”

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

“I can't give up my own identity.”

“I can be a lazy slob.”

“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.”

“I think male actors get confused by their own vanity.”

“I make my mistakes in public.”

“Things are done according to money these days.”