Shirley MacLaine

“Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.”

“We've had so many lifetimes of different cultures and different religions and different points of view and different wars and different loves and different children.”

“I don't do like diva trips and stuff.”

“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.”

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

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

“I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.”

“The mob taught me how to play gin rummy.”

“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, an...”

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

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

“Movie makers now choose profit over vision.”

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

“You know when you eat too many sweets and get diabetes? Paparazzi are the diabetes of materialistic culture.”

“Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.”

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

“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 need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.”

“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...”

“I can be a lazy slob.”