Shirley MacLaine Quotes

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.
Shirley MacLaine

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.
Shirley MacLaine

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.
Shirley MacLaine

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.
Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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.
Shirley MacLaine

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

Sex is hardly ever just about sex.
Shirley MacLaine

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

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

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

The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacLaine