Shirley MacLaine

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

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

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.

Well, success does not mean doing well.

We need proof in our society.

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

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

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.

Things are done according to money these days.

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

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

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

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

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.

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

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.

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

Women love working together. That's my experience anyway.

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.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.