Shirley MacLaine Quotes

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You think you have a handle on God, the Universe, and the Great White Light until you go home for Thanksgiving. In an hour, you realize how far you've got to go and who is the real turkey.

Shirley MacLaine
I regret turning down the lead role in Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974) which Ellen Burstyn deservedly won an Oscar for. I said to myself: "Who is this Martin Scorsese person?".

Shirley MacLaine
Friendship is not linear. It moves in all directions, teaching us about ourselves and about each other.

Shirley MacLaine
The absence of evidence does not mean the evidence of absence.

Shirley MacLaine
You can't lie when you dance. It's so direct. You do what is in you. You can't dance out of the side of your mouth.

Shirley MacLaine
I could be whatever I wanted to be if I trusted that music, that song, that vibration of God that was inside of me.

Shirley MacLaine
In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.

Shirley MacLaine
I've always thought I was looking for myself whenever I traveled. Like a journey anywhere was really a journey through myself.

Shirley MacLaine
We cannot divorce what we are producing from what we are. We create technology out of the vision we have of ourselves. If we are blind in our conception of ourselves we will create a blind technology.

Shirley MacLaine
The more sex becomes a non-issue in people's lives, the happier they are.

Shirley MacLaine
One can become as intellectually arrogant about spirituality as about empirical science.

Shirley MacLaine
To release others from the expectations we have of them is to really love them.

Shirley MacLaine