Shirley MacLaine Quotes – Wisdom, Humor, and Hollywood Stories

Some people say I look like a sweet potato, but I am a potato with a heart of gold.

The best way to convince husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they are too old to do what is asked.

To get to the fruit of a tree, there is a price to pay. (Shirley MacLaine in My Lives).

I don’t need anyone to fix my existence. The deepest relationship we can have is with ourselves.

At a certain age if you don’t know who you are, that is a serious problem as we can see in some of our leaders.

Writing has become, once again, a logical and natural extension of understanding and explaining my thoughts and feelings, of trying to understand the thoughts and feelings of others. (Dancing in the Light)

Nicole Kidman and Jennifer Aniston are apolitical beings. What concerns these young actresses is makeup, hairdo and stress about diets.

I discovered that one book usually leads to another, just as one conversation leads to many others. (Dancing in the Light).

I had learned a long time ago that having fun was more important than preparing. It was a painful lesson, but I felt much happier because the important thing was to live in the moment. (Dancing in the Light).

I think it was after I turned 40 that I started to think more about the future. I wasn’t afraid of getting older, because I didn’t have the same problems as actresses my age, since I was never a great beauty. I was never a sex symbol, but I had long legs. I wasn’t interested in my stature as a star, I was only interested in the good parts.

I was never good enough to be a ballet soloist. I don’t have feet, I have high arches and I couldn’t have the grace necessary.

An actor has many lives and many people inside him. I know there are many people inside me.

I can’t define longevity. I don’t know what it means.

About the Oscar: I like winning these things. I love it. The only part about it that I don’t like is the red carpet and walking around in high heels holding my stomach. Seriously, I hate it.

I’ve always been a character actress and never a sex symbol. Even when I was the lead, I was a character actress.

I’ve done so many movies as a prostitute that they don’t pay me regularly anymore. They just leave the money on the dresser.

I miss the stage so much. There’s nothing like it, nothing.

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Carla Marinho Leal

Writer, traveler and above all, curious about many subjects. She has studied cinema since 2002 and is a Specialist in Cinematographic Studies from UNICAP. Founder of the blog Purviance and the website Cinemaclássico. She loves Charles Chaplin, Raj Kapoor and constantly browses films from all over the world.

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