Shirley MacLaine

“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.”

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

“The more I've learned about me, the more I'm interested in others.”

“The best way to get husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do it.”

“I never would have given up my work to stay home.”

“When a child comes in, I believe that it's a 'multipersonhood,' and it knows it, its consciousness knows it, and it has a nuclei in the center of its consciousness that is the repository of all experience and all knowledge. And when you look in the eyes of your baby and you feel this sense that they are an old soul, I believe indeed they are.”

“Women being pitted each other another in Hollywood is an old tactic, but it's not real at all.”

“I'm an artist, therefore I think I am sensitive to human pain.”

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

“The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.”

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

“We need proof in our society.”

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

“I think when I was in my early twenties and middle twenties I didn't even know I wasn't living up to my potential. A couple of friends told me I wasn't and told me to get my act together, and it made a huge impact on me.”

“I don't like to socialise much.”

“I can't advise any of the young ones, because I don't know what their background was, but I would suggest that anyone who wants to be famous more than anything - there's a real problem.”

“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.”

“I don't know why anybody would be in awe of me.”

“When times are bad, people like to lose themselves in the sheer glamour of another period: beautiful wardrobes, magnificent meals served in elegant settings.”

“Well, success does not mean doing well.”